We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
Age Quotes
Old men must die, or the word would grow moldy, would only breed the past again.
Threescore years and ten! It is the Scriptural statute of limitations. After that, you owe no active duties; for you the strenuous life is over. You are a time-expired man, to use Kipling’s military phrase: You have served your term, well or less well, and you are mustered out. You are become an honorary member […]
Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself-a lad of about 19.
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable regardless of physical capacity.
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
When one is twenty yes, but at forty-seven Venus may rise from the sea, and I for one should hardly put on my spectacles to have a look.
Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, “Smile, Grandma!” I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother’s lap.
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
