Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It’s middle- age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well.
Age Quotes
Live your life and forget your age.
You can only hold your stomach in for so many years.
The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills, and wills.
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.
How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might just as well be twenty.
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.
In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made.
