Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what it is? Luck.

I held a brief debate with myself as to whether I should change my ordinary attire for something smarter. At last I concluded it would be a waste of labour. “Doubtless,” though I, “she is...

When the last autumn of Dickens’s life was over, he continued to work through his final winter and into spring. This is how all of us writers give away the days and years and decades...

I had a dream about you. The seasons changed, but you did not. You were the same old person you always were, only older. And I was the same old person I always was, only...

His hair isn’t turning gray—it’s turning silver, and it’s going up in value. Aging is the best hedge against an inflationary fiat currency.

I’m older than myself. At least I will be, once my clone gets here.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Nat: Maybe you broke something.Midge: I know. Never fall down, never fall down!Nat: Ah, it’s nothing. I fall down every morning. I get up, I have a cup of coffee, I fall down. That’s the...

…real age, as I came to see from the genuine pieces that passed through my hands, was variable, crooked, capricious, singing here and sullen there, warm asymmetrical streaks on a rosewood cabinet from where a...

The benefit of appearing so young is I’m constantly underestimated

… as we age we have not only to readdress earlier developmental crises but also somehow to find the way to three affirmations that may seem to conflict. … We have to affirm our own...

Time has no age, no limit; and no death.

It was him, thirty years too old, twenty pounds too light, & forty watts too dim maybe, but him.

My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out humiliating things that can neither be anticipated nor controlled. I sigh and make the best of it. I...

People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one’s self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar....

I don’t see,’ I said, ‘how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you’re young you’re so self-reliant. You don’t even need much religion.

I mean, my age is just a number. So what if you were born in the era when they still used rotary phones and cassette tapes? I think it’s cute.

I’m in my 40s and I’m constantly surprised by how much my childhood still plays a part in my life.

Now and again, one could detect in a childless woman of a certain age the various characteristics of all the children she had never issued. Her body was haunted by the ghost of souls who...

Always follow your dreams with confidence and conviction, don’t fall for the trap of dream killers

I do what he says and I close my eyes and open my mouth and the next thing I know he’s got his twenty-eight-year-old tongue in my thirteen-year-old mouth and all I can think is...

The older you get, the faster time passes in your mind, so use your time according to what is most important.

A man doesn’t grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his...

The very old and the very young have something in common that makes it right that they should be left alone together. Dawn and sunset see stars shining in a blue sky; but morning and...

I’m fifty-one years old, but I’m not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more.

You look extremely young,” said Miss Nightingale….”Age isn’t really a matter of years, I find,” returned Phemie. “I know people twice my age who will never be as old as I am now.

I’m now solidly in my mid-thirties. I turned thirty, three days ago.

A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people. Leadership is not restricted to position and age; it is self-made and influencial....

Son front, quoique peu ridé, semble porter le sceau d’une myriade d’années. Ses cheveux gris sont des archives du passé et ses yeux, plus gris encore, sont des sibylles de l’avenir.

No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man’s game. … Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at...

If an eighty-six-year-old woman has been clear-seeing from a young age, she will have gone through a lot of life developing a keen eye for snares and pitfalls, an ear for deceit, and a good...

At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of the time your mind was somewhere else. By the time you got to...

The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.

It is very easy to grow tired at collecting; the period of a low tide is about all men can endure. At first the rocks are bright and every moving animal makes his mark on...

You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.

I am old now, or at least, I am no longer young, and everything I see reminds me of something else I’ve seen, such that I see nothing for the first time. A bonny girl,...

Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to see it.

…Imagine having to ask whether you can go barefoot or not…But she remembers similar requests and prohibitions now, from twenty years and more back. “The childhood years are the best years of your life…” Whoever...

Age brings maturity, experience ripens it.

I am older than your age and younger than your body.

I might be old and ugly now, but you started that way, Jack.

I am half child, half ancient.

TAKE Risk because you never know how absolutely perfect something could turn out to be..

Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

when you’re younga pair offemalehigh-heeled shoesjust sittingalonein the closetcan fire yourbones;when you’re oldit’s justa pair of shoeswithoutanybodyin themandjust aswell.

If you’re not getting happier as you get older, then you’re fuckin’ up

Though the face before me was that of a young woman of certainly not more than thirty years, in perfect health and the first flush of ripened beauty, yet it bore stamped upon it a...

Age does not mean wisdom, Do not follow the old man off the cliff.

Everyone can be a leader irrespective of their age, race, creed, nationality or political affiliation. Once you can figure out your talents and optimize them very well, at the right place and at the right...

The old me is younger than the new me, the me now.