The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
Age Quotes
Will you still need me, Will you still feed me, When I’m sixty-four?
No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. Time hypnotizes. When you’re nine, you think you’ve always been nine years old and will always be. When you’re thirty, it seems you’ve always been balanced on that bright rim of middle life. […]
We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
You may search my time-worn face, You’ll find a merry eye that twinkles. I am not an old lady Just a little girl with wrinkles!
To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.
This is serious: some of the things that are supposed to last the rest of my life are already wearing out.
You see, when one’s young one doesn’t feel part of it yet, the human condition; one does things because they are not for good; everything is a rehearsal. To be repeated ad lib, to be put right when the curtain goes up in earnest. One day you know that the curtain was up all the […]
She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she’s on the slide. It’s downhill all the way from then on. It doesn’t give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being.
