Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

Dissents speak to a future age.

Jackie Chan is a myth.

America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

My age is very insignificant to me. I don’t think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

The post of honour is a private station.

Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. ‚Good pride‘ represents our dignity and self-respect. ‚Bad pride‘ is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine.

I don’t have this feeling that 70 is really old.