There was no respect for youth when I was young and now that I am old there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going.

It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief as a smart man called it there isn't even more fraud. After all with no God there's no one to ever call you to account and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.

In passing we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents and when age finally stirs their curiosity there is no parent left to tell them.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

I would go out with women my age but there are no women my age.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up even in advanced age as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

In this age which believes that there is a short cut to everything the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is in the long run the easiest.

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.