The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.
I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
The spirit should never grow old.
Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!
You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
Gray hair is God's graffiti.
There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.
Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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