The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
The person of wisdom is the person of years.
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!''
The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.
The surest sign of age is loneliness.
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
The trick is growing up without growing old.
The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.
The worst old age is that of the mind.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
There are only three ages for women in Hollywood–Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.
| Quotations 301 to 320 of 402 | First | < Previous | Next > | Last |