age

The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse form the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Genius is a child up to the age of ten.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem-in my opinion-to characterize our age.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

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

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.