I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day and thinks to please by its old graces it is only an object of ridicule.

In this age of media and Internet access we are much more talkative than ever before.

If you read back in the Bible the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.

I think it's pretty crazy to say you've been typecast at the age of 20 before you've even really started getting going.

Living in an age of advertisement we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day but it changes and withers at a touch.

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.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50 and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

Before anything else we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth justice freedom and reason.

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.

Believe me that was a happy age before the days of architects before the days of builders.