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.
Age Quotes
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.
Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
Wives are young men’s mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men’s nurses.
I hope I never get so old I get religious.
I believe the true function of age is memory. I’m recording as fast as I can.
