When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the Music.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

In youth we learn in age we understand.

- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

- Alexander Hamilton

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

- Soren Kierkegaard

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

- Bertrand Russell

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

- Bertrand Russell

Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

- Benjamin Disraeli

Youth has no age.

- Pablo Picasso

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

- Phyllis Diller

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

- Paulo Coelho

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

- Joan Collins