You get to be about eleven or twelve and everything’s old hat. They’ve drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don’t want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything...

Live a life that leaves a memory, nobody can steal.

You see, I don’t think age matters so much as people think. Parts of me are still 12 and I think other parts were already 50 when I was 12….

You are mortal. You age, you die. If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is?

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

You’re not old: You are like wine. You get better over time.

We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn’t so extraordinary, I don’t know why people go on about it so much.

Tonight when she came down to the front desk she was wearing neon green hot pants and a pink leopard print jacket. But the best part was that her boots almost matched her jacket. I...

We are no longer in the dispensation of age and experience. We are in the era of knowledge and information. Information leads a true leader and a true leader leads others.

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

He’s a year shorter than me, but he’s a foot younger. I love him like the brother of an only child.

Some men like shiny new toys. Others like the priceless antique.

I guess when you’d lived as long, and pondered as much, as Old Tom had…a game of hopscotch could be more profound than village politics or gossip.

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

The foolishness of youth with the cynicism of age is a dangerous combination.

Seniority has nothing to do with intellectuality, your individuality wins the majority or minority, simply because you maintained the status quo of your peculiarity.

Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don’t you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life’s business.

There really is no correlation between age and one’s bank balance. I’ve met wealthy boys and broke men.

Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of man’s knowledge, that counts most. As someone has said, ‘The...

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will...

now that one was mature then, said Peter, one could watch, one could understand, and one did not lose the power of feeling, he said. No, that is true, said Sally. She felt more deeply,...

We were all so young that there were no lines on our faces to read between.

Start wherever you are! Low hanging fruit really tastes as good as the high stuff.

A wise man is someone who knows how to convert obstacles into resources.

It does not count a day if you do not learn something new from it. Tt’s not nice to become old in years while your true age is only a few days.

Mamma says she is quite certain that “how old is too old?” is not a question known to the Lord.

Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.

A positive attitude is most easily arrived at through a… both past and future, and enter into naka-ima — the eternal present.

If all the centenarians formed their own country, they’d be both the youngest country in the world, and the oldest.

I have in this War a burning private grudge—which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler (for the odd thing about...

I got my nails done today. I’m so glad that after 30 years, they’re finally finished.

Death is coming—but hopefully not before old age, decrepitude, and senility.

George Macdonald said, ‘If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands’, but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing...

I’ve got a sizeable retirement nest egg. It’s an ostrich egg, and it’s going to make an omelet so big that it’ll produce enough leftovers for decades.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know...

How old must you be before words can no longer fool you?

…active wisdom—an entire cohort with something new to offer to the world as years of experience combined with continuing health.

You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

Being your age is hard enough without having to act it.

I could no longer remember the way my mother’s eyes looked before the slowing. Had they always been so red around the edges? Surely, those pockets of gray beneath her lower lashes were new. She...

But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

No, time has silverted the dark sheen of her hair, and thickened her body, and lined the corners of her eyes and her lips.He saw in them the hints of the smile he loved, and...

Old Deuteronomy’s lived a long time; He’s a cat who has lived many lives in succession. He was famous in proverb and famous in rhyme a long while before Queen Victoria’s accession. Old Deuteronomy’s buried...

When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring … Wow, it’s good to be old!

Nobody is a loser: Either he is a winner or a learner.

There is coming a day, when freedom will just be a essence of the mind, an inner dwelling that was once physically attainable. They will tell you where you can live, and what you can...

Prettiness fades after a few years, but elegance only increases with age.

I have this very silly fear, dear friend, that one day I’ll be old without ever having been young.

They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed...