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

I was the first face you saw when you were born, you were bald as my hair ran black. Now yours the last face I saw before I died, your hair ran black, as I...

Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life – it has given me me . It has provided time and experience and failures and triumphs and time-tested friends who have helped...

…a great future behind him, already

As you get older, you don’t get wiser. You get irritable.

She realizes she doesn’t know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age.

Woman” in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.

Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.

Wrinkles don’t signify old age, they signify a lack of ironing skills or a dearth of hangers to hang clothes on.

If I aged twice as fast and lived twice as long as a normal person, would I be Wisdom Man?

I was a lot braver when I was eight.

When the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it is commonly in some such speech as this: “Ah, yes, when one is young, one has these ideals in the abstract and these castles...

It was a bitter moment for us. We weren’t two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy’s permission, blessings, and money to survive.

At a certain age […] you start thinking you might have learned something when you were young if you hadn’t already been so smart.

Raped at age nine by a relative and pregnant at 14 Oprah Winfrey,like many others have experienced the wickedness and brutality ofour society. Sadly, it’s an environment where blood lines no longerhold.

when you live forever and don’t age, it gives you time to hope

I don’t act my age, I act my personality.

I don’t ever want to get old. Spare me that. Have you the power? No, even you don’t have the power, alas.

With mortal age comes the immense need for childish charms. Like a fine wine, sweetens with maturity.

What about young age? You will be miserable all through your 15 years to reach that goal of $10 million. After 50years, even if you pay a million to get back a week of your...

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

What else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That’s the reality of getting old, and I guess that’s really the crux of the matter. I’m not ready to be old yet.

Old age doth in sharp pains abound;We are belabored by the gout,Our blindness is a dark profound,Our deafness each one laughs about.Then reason’s light with falling rayDoth but a trembling flicker cast.Honor to age, ye...

Old age ain’t no place for sissies.

Only Boiled Seeds are afraid of failure.

It’s not that I’m particularly worried about growing old. Nor am I all that bothered about wrinkles, grey hair and all that. BUT. Major but. I don’t like the idea of dying – not when...

Age had drained the color from her eyes the way darkness drains the color from everything

I’ve always looked like this—in between. Is there ever an age when a person looks exactly like themselves?

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority...

I don’t know what the old you was like, but the new you, the older you than the old you, is new and fresh.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

The last 33 years of my life have been a blur, like a hummingbird’s beating wings. Time flies, but not backwards, like a hummingbird can.

I’m not the same person I was when I wasn’t. I’m different now, in that now I’m drinking coffee.

Age isn’t how old you are but how old you feel.

(On having being just proposed to)’Have you been thinking of this for long?’ she managed jerkily, praying for the shock to recede so that she could behave a little more normally.’Let’s say it crept up...

Old soul.” I laughed. “You’re Thirty.””It’s not the years, it’s the experience,” he paused.

After all, most of us have lived lives based on commitments made without any way of knowing where they would lead. The uncertainty is an essential element in commitment, the acceptance of consequences an essential...

Time has no age.

I Have a Dream.”24) Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated for a Nobel Prize in Physics 25) The Wright brothers, Orville (32) and Wilbur (36) invented and built the world’s first...

To think things out properly and fairly, a fellow’s got to be calm and old and toothless: When you’re an old gaffer with no teeth, it’s easy to say: ‘Damn it, boys, you mustn’t bite!’...

Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Love has no age, race, wealth, ethnic bakground, gender, or appearence. Love is love and that’s the way it’s supposed to be.

Two or three years from now thirty won’t look so senile.

Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand.