866 quotes found
“...wear a hat and some old lady shoes, and you can do whatever you want.”
“(You know you've reached middle-age if...) when you hear 'Boys in the hood' you think of the Ku Klux Klan.”
“Getting older comes with abilities. Being old comes with disabilities.”
“At 11, I could say I am sodium (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.”
“The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.”
“I've always figured it that you die each day and each day is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but never go back and lift the lids, because you've died a couple of thousand times in your life,...”
“Many people define beauty as skin deep, but Ive found the beauty in physical and superficial changes that continue throughout the life of a woman.”
“Living this long's not as wonderful as people think. I mean, you get the same amount of youth as everyone else, but a great big extra helping of being very old and deaf and creaky.”
“To flatter a young man, tell him that you thought that he was older than he is. To flatter an old woman, tell her that you thought that she was younger than she is.”
“Someday, I suppose Ill give up, and sit in the rocking chair. But Ill probably be rocking fast, because I dont know what Ill do without a job.”
“I hope you learn how to slow down and not let your life pass you by while you're watching the idiot box. Life's short, and one day you'll wake up and look in the mirror and realize you look like Ki...”
“We had a good marriage," he said. "I just thought it would be so much longer." Then he shrugged, and coughed away a sob, this thin man in his sixties with the soft androgynous face that aging seeme...”
“Youth. I don't seek it through another because I have it within; it's a state of mind, a spirit that is free, and a mind that is playful. The shell of my being is altered by the effects of time, bu...”
“I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.”
“Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially whatever peace you ca...”
“Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed over each one, this minute, the next minute, the one following, all of which w...”
“It is we who move through time, not the reverse. When we walk beyond any one of lifes instants, it becomes nothing more than a receding milestone. We can look back, but we cannot retrace our steps....”
“And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.”
“The more candles on my cake means I get a little more exercise in blowing them out.”
“Old age saves us from the realization of a great many fears.”
