With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

You aren’t really old until nothing is fun enough to make you forget the weather.

Unattached and aimless, these old men are always infatuated with little certainties and regularities such as those that ordered the life of Mr. Krupper as seen from outside. Habit is living. Anything unexpected reminds them...

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

Children’s and YA books are about being brave and kind, about learning wisdom and love, about that journey into and through maturity that we all keep starting, and starting again, no matter how old we...

The richest people in the world build networks and invest in people; everyone else looks for work and invests in survival.

If we are to use the words ‘childish’ and ‘infantile’ as terms of disapproval, we must make sure that they refer only to those characteristics of childhood which we become better and happier by outgrowing....

Výborně. Sen každé ženy.

All your convictions come back to mock you when you reach a certain age.

As to the charge that I am a cranky old man, I plead guilty.

The best thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25-year-old men more.

By the time you’re thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

I want my last 50 years on this earth to be amazing. Of course, I still want to have 150 years before those last 50 years begin.

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.

England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare’s muchd message, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr Goebbels. More than either it resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black...

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress — to the future.

I sold my first short story to Pyramid Press, where it was chiseled onto fifteen slabs of granite, and for which I was paid nine goats.

The day you lose your sense of wonder is the day you grow old.

Sorting gets harder as time goes on–it requires a sort of ruthless decisiveness, while indecision results in endless dithering. Five moves, they say, equal a fire. But those who haven’t moved may begin to need...

Death was constant, unprejudiced to age, race, or creed.

The other day as I was stepping out of Star Grocery on Claremont Avenue with some pork ribs under my arm, the Berkeley sky cloudless, a smell of jasmine in the air, a car driving...

Childhood isn’t just those years. It’s also the opinions you form about them afterward. That’s why our childhoods are so long.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Though our castes and institutions are apparently linked with our religion, they are not so. These institutions have been necessary to protect us as a nation, and when this necessity for self-preservation will no more...

It doesn’t matter if you’re 20, 40, 60, 80, or 100. Embrace your sexy-ass self and express it!

I just thought it sounded good.

His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.

Have and show motivation to do and learn. That’s the key for a good career. Everything else is an extrapolation of that.

For all those who say its a Man world. Respect Women Its their World we are just guest here

My child, I know you’re not a childBut I still see you running wildBetween those flowering trees.Your sparkling dreams, your silver laughYour wishes to the stars above Are just my memories.And in your eyes the...

Avoid the stage of old age sit in the audience, it’s all the rage

People talk to old people like they’re children.’Oh you’re very old aren’t you?’ Yeah I’m old. I’m not stupid.

Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed...

You may be temporarily young, but you’ll forever be childish.” Then I put gum in her hair.

Sometimes there were kids who were simply born to be thirty, or fifty, or seventy; I could see their unfinished teenaged faces overlaid with the transparencies of their aged selves and had to resist telling...

How many birthdays can you fit in a shoebox? I guess that depends both on how old you are, and what size shoe you wear.

I’m a year older than 365 days ago, and I’m having trouble bending my knees and my lower back is killing me. Everything reminds me of death. Especially bending over all day to steal the...

Eustasia Johannsen was ready. Anyone could see that. Everything about her ancient self gave evidence to it: Her skin, wrinkled and transparent… But mainly, it was her eyes. They were drawn into her face as...

I’d like to invent a product that’ll turn 18-year-olds into 21-year-olds, and sell it in front of bars.

You must find a boy your own age. Someone mild and beautiful to be your lover. Someone who will tremble for your touch, offer you a marguerite by its long stem with his eyes lowered....

The thing to know about my brother was that even though he was fifteen, he looked to be about the same age as me. Only, I’m not sure if that was because he looked older...

…A mirror can trick you day by day into thinking you remain looking and existing in one way forever. But a photograph presents you with the truth: it freezes you eternally, existing as a reminder...

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

I’m a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present. Instead it drifts, nearly always to the same shore. Today, as most days, it is 1962. The year I...

What did I think of Princeton? Well, the answer to that question requires a story. When I first arrived, I looked around me at the Gothic buildings — younger, I later learned, than many of...

…. by the time they have reached the middle of their life’s journey, few people remember how they have managed to arrive at themselves, at their amusements, their point of view, their wife, character, occupation...

[A]lthough wisdom is built on life experience, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.

On ne retombe pas en enfance, on n’en sort jamais. Vieux, moi? Qu’est-ce qu’un vieillard sinon un enfant qui a pris de l’ ge ou du vendre ?…

But at what age are you forgiven your trespasses?

The only difference between success and failure is Lack of Vision