20th century Quotes

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”

“My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.”

“Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.”

“We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.”

“It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.”

“We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.”

“It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.”

“Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”

“Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.”

“The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.”