I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do but now that I am older I find that I dont want to do them.
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body the mind and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise study and love.
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging through correction of diet through anti-oxidants through removal of toxins from the body through exercise through yoga and breathing techniques and through meditation.
Old age believe me is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
The answer to old age is to keep ones mind busy and to go on with ones life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
So people think Im lying about my age all the time? Its the records that are wrong. Ive never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me I say Thats none of your business. So that means Ive never once lied about my age. Now thats true!
Anyone who stops learning is old whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning today is young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.
To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence Washington from commanding the Continental Army Madison from fathering the Constitution Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really havent changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes but you dont change at all. And that of course causes great confusion.
But at my back I always hear Times winged Chariot hurrying near.
I am not young enough to know everything. [see J. M. Barrie]
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits he cannot feel old no matter what his years may be.
To know how to grow old is the masterwork of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do but now that I am older I find that I dont want to do them.
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body the mind and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise study and love.
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Alas after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.
Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging through correction of diet through anti-oxidants through removal of toxins from the body through exercise through yoga and breathing techniques and through meditation.
Weve put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
Old age believe me is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Gray hair is Gods graffiti.
The whole business of marshaling ones energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
Old age is no place for sissies.
Middle age is youth without levity and age without decay.
We turn not older with years but newer every day.
The answer to old age is to keep ones mind busy and to go on with ones life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
Old age isnt so bad when you consider the alternatives.
I dont believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
We are reformers in the spring and summer but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning and conservers at night.
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age but they die young.
So people think Im lying about my age all the time? Its the records that are wrong. Ive never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me I say Thats none of your business. So that means Ive never once lied about my age. Now thats true!
Women are not forgiven for aging. Bob Redfords lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.
Anyone who stops learning is old whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning today is young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
You know youre getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when its bottled.
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a womans birthday but never remembers her age.
Old age is a shipwreck.
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past we have arrived.
I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward he will look forward with the work.
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
When grace is joined with wrinkles it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
No man is ever old enough to know better.
To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence Washington from commanding the Continental Army Madison from fathering the Constitution Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.
The trouble with our age is all signpost and no destination.
Utility is when you have one telephone luxury is when you have two and paradise is when you have none.
Youth is the gift of nature but age is a work of art.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really havent changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes but you dont change at all. And that of course causes great confusion.
Whatever poet orator or sage may say of it old age is still old age.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Old age is like flying through a storm. Once youre aboard theres nothing you can do.
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do about it.
After thirty a body has a mind of its own.