At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can’t tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.
Age Quotes
At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.
As long as you’re green you’re growing, as soon as you’re ripe you start to rot.
I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows. (at 73)
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
At my age flowers scare me.
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
I’ve never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.
Sophocles wrote his Oedipus at 90 years of age; Pope Leo XII inaugurated most of his enlightenment policy after he was 70; Titian painted his masterpiece, the bronze doors of the sacristy of St. Mark’s at 85. Elihu Root died in 1937 at 92 years of age; he was one of the greatest statesmen America […]
