Age Quotes - Page 21

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  Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.14, BoD – Books on Demand

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• To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

  Alan Bleasdale

  Love, Heart, Exercise

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• Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

  Bob Hope

  Birthday, Witty, Funny Inspirational

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• No matter your age, stage of life, or circumstances, don't forget to dare to dream with God. You don't have to figure anything out. Just keep saying yes to Him, in big ways and small, and watch what He does.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Dream, Saying Yes, Doe

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Apr 06, 2016

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• Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Retirement, Fun, Middle

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• Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Long, Matter

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.82, Princeton University Press

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• Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age

  Aaron Sorkin

  Athlete, Opposites, Get Better

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• The golden age is before us, not behind us.

  William Shakespeare

  Happy Birthday, Afterlife, Golden

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• So of course time is necessary. But nevertheless damn painful, for it transforms all the pieces of your life - joy and sorrow, youth and age, love and hate, terror and bliss - from fire into smoke rising up the air and dissipating on a breeze.

  Charles Frazier

  Hate, Fire, Air

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• Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.

  Clint Eastwood

  Retirement, Learning Something New, Stories

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• How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

  C. S. Lewis

  Aging, Incessant, Old Age

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• When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

  Haruki Murakami

  Birthday, Writing, Remembers Everything

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• Nature, as it grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy.

  William Shakespeare

  Journey, Earth, Dull

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (écrivain) (1801). “The Plays of William Shakspeare”, p.71

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• These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.

  John Dryden

  Doubt, Care, Vain

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden now first collected ...”, p.426

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• Age and want sit smiling at the gate.

  Alexander Pope

  Want, Gates

  Alexander Pope (1856). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.31

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• When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.

  Barbara Cartland

  Past, Fifty, Faces

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• Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Birthday, Positive

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.443, Courier Corporation

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• Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

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• By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Rambling, Growing, Perceive

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• I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

  Francis Bacon

  Birthday, Time, Men

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• The old - like children - talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

  Eugene O'Neill

  Funny, Children, Kissing

  1927 Tiberius. Lazarus Laughed, act 4, sc.1.

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• Age overtakes us all; Our temples first; then on o'er cheek and chin, Slowly and surely, creep the frosts of Time. Up and do somewhat, ere thy limbs are sere.

  Theocritus

  Frost, Firsts, Temples

  Theocritus (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Theocritus (Illustrated)”, p.71, Delphi Classics

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• Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Beautiful, Aftermath, Appearing

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4992, Delphi Classics

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• Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Rights, Childhood

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• As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Childhood, Pleasure, Endeavor

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1856). “The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.318

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