Youth has to do with spirit, not age. Men of seventy or sixty are often more youthful than the young. Theirs is the real youth. —Henry Miller More about this quote Tags: age youth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age. —Margaret Atwood More about this quote Tags: wisdom silence age frivolity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I had known when I was twenty-one that I should be as happy as I am now, I should have been sincerely shocked. They promised me wormwood and the funeral raven. —Christopher Isherwood More about this quote Tags: age youth death shock Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I was young, I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. —W. Somerset Maugham More about this quote Tags: learning curiousity age youth Greek ambition Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don’t ever think the poetry is dead in an old man because his forehead is wrinkled, or that his manhood has left him when his hand trembles! If they ever were there, they are there still. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: poetry age joy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We categorize everyone. We send the old here, the young there. We ship adolescents off to war. We send everyone to prison every day: the children to school, the parents to the office or the factory, the musicians to concert halls in the evening. —John Cage More about this quote Tags: war age prison Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. —Bernard Baruch More about this quote Tags: humor perception age old age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: wisdom age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Old age is fifteen years older than I am. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No wise man ever wished to be younger. —Jonathan Swift More about this quote Tags: wisdom age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. —Konrad Lorenz More about this quote Tags: science age bias Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are always the same age inside. —Gertrude Stein More about this quote Tags: age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. —Cyril Connolly More about this quote Tags: kindness writing age nice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts. —Ursula K. Le Guin More about this quote Tags: age effort menopause womanhood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: respect age belief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email