Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn’t take very good care of himself.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

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

When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

I’m saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

I’d always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

When you’re 25 or 30, you know, you can’t wear lime-green eye shadow anymore.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

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

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They’ve got their heads screwed on a lot better.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

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.

When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I’ve had a lot of physical problems.

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

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

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

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

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

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

I’ll die a crazy old man!