Life versus death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, old age versus death.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

Of course, you were crowned with laurel in the beginning, your gold hair was wreathed with laurel, but the gold is thinning and the laurel has withered. Face it – pitiful monster.

They also knew that there was a string of DNA at the end of each chromosome called a telomere, which shortened a tiny bit each time a cell divided, like time ticking off a clock....

To enjoy a peaceful & Beautiful Life We should open our ‘EYE’ and Close our ‘I

Life doesn’t walk away, we do.

Things wrote with labor deserve to be so read and will last their age.

Age may catch up with you, just never let it over take you.

He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

My dear Mrs. Ali, I would hardly refer to you as old,” he said. “You are in what I would call the very prime flowering of mature womanhood.” It was a little grandiose but he...

I am an uncle, though this is not a new feeling for me, as I’ve been one before. I’ve also been 2 through 32, and I turn 33 in March.

Save your mind from a premature death by always learning something new no matter your age! Think every day, but make sure it’s not within the perimeter of the box! Think outside the box!

Women always want to look younger, and I always want to look older, so I could look like Pliny the Younger. As a lover, that would give me the best of both worlds.

With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

El único problema era que Francisca ya no era una niña, tenía 14 años y a esa edad aparecen los granos en la cara… y las inseguridades en el alma.

Moving is both liberating and debilitating. Undertaken too late, it is a very stressful process, one that sometimes seems to catapult people into frail old age, and undertaken too soon, it may preempt other possibilities.

Age makes you want to hold everyone you love as close as you can.

Granny Trill and Granny Wallon were traditional ancients of a kind we won’t see today, the last of that dignity of grandmothers to whom age was its own embellishment. The grandmothers of those days dressed...

A writer’s age at the time of a work’s composition is never irrelevant.

[W]as verabscheuenswerter sei, die Zeichen der Sünde oder die des Alter.

I told Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson, then age 105, that she was the only person over 80 who I’d ever met who never referred to her physical infirmities or health problems. To which she replied,...

Tyler rolls out of bed, sniffs the armpits of yesterday’s T-shirt, tosses it aside, gets another out of the drawer. His dad sometimes asks him why he sets his alarm so early — it’s summer...

“You’re very old, aren’t you?” “Just as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.”

It was dawning on the wizards that they were outside the University, at night and without permission, for the first time in decades. A certain suppressed excitement crackled from man to man. Any watch trained...

Find answers in your weakness and surprise in your strength and always remember the golden rule every failure has HOPES

What’s my age again?

In the grand scheme of life, nobody grows old keeping their soul unblemished.

You are only old once, but you can be immature forever.

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.

A successful man is like a bottle of wine, just gets better with age.

For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of course, time shifts a little for them and Christmas comes round in the...

I’ll never be as old as someone older than me, but I can be older than them if I outlive their lifespan.

I’m the same old guy I was when I was a young guy.

You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping.

Do you remember what I forgot?

The closer I get, the faster I have to go. Otherwise, I might be late to the very place where I’m not even expected. Adding to my tardiness is the fact that I don’t even...

I miss being the age when I thought I’d have my shit together by the time I was the age I am now..

I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of...

I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

Growing up doesn’t mean that you are older than someone, it means that you are no longer an amateur.

And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man’s brain is mocked by a body that still longs to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape...

I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.

Young men think old men fools, old men know young men to be so.

We’re so old that the winds of age echo along our ribs and pick at our eye sockets. We could be gone tomorrow. A chill, say, or a little slip on the cliff side. I...

Old age isn’t a battle; old age is a massacre.

As you have been on the road, what have you been hearing from readers about A RELIABLE WIFE?RG: The most interesting question came from a young man in his 30s who asked me to discuss...