Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Old Quotes
Intellectual blemishes, like facial ones, grow more prominent with age.
In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage, so long are you young. When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, and then only, are you […]
Antiquity, like every other quality that attracts the notice of mankind, has undoubtedly votaries that reverence it, not from reason, but from prejudice.
Four Seasons fill the measure of the year; There are four seasons in the mind of man: He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear Takes in all beauty with an easy span: He has his Summer, when luxuriously Spring’s honied cud of youthful thought he loves To ruminate, and by such dreaming high Is […]
We come fresh to the different stages of life, and in each of them we are quite inexperienced, no matter how old we are.
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
I’ll tell ‘ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people.
To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes – we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
I don’t generally feel anything until noon, then it’s time for my nap.
