866 quotes found
“Age is a high price to pay for maturity.”
“I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - m...”
“When I was very young I was disgracefully intolerant but when I passed the thirty mark I prided myself on having learned the beautiful lesson that all things were good and equally good. That how...”
“It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child while not being loved as a child is loved but merely being kept alive against one's will.”
“Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.”
“Your old men shall dream dreams your young men shall see visions.”
“I am long on ideas but short on time. I expect to live only about a hundred years.”
“How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days.”
“In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.”
“What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.”
“The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.”
“To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”
“When you reach your sixties you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty some degree of asceticism is inevitable.”
“Yes I'm 68 but when I was a boy I was too poor to smoke so knock off ten years. That makes me 58. And since I never developed the drinking habit you can knock off ten more years. So I'm 48 - in...”
“Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this too shall pass!'”
“Senescence begins And middle age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends.”
“It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the...”
“Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commo...”
“Sometimes when you get older—and I'm not talking about you, I'm talking generally, because everyone ages differently—things you think on and wish on start to seem real. And then you believe them, a...”
“Coming down life's highwayAt ninety mile an hour I want to slideWith bad brakes and bald tiresInto my final parking space”
