Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Age Quotes
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.
One starts to get young at sixty, and then it’s too late.
There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and “how well you look.”
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
We don’t grow older, we grow riper.
