Wisdom in old age

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

- John Barrymore

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

- Helen Rowland

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

- Leroy (Satchel) Paige

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

- Rowan D. Williams

Older, we must move, and stay, and move again, to keep our life-giving ties alive, for this movement is our fountain of age. And there's a freedom in realizing this, a new freedom to move or stay, new necessities and possibilities of choice.

- Betty Friedan

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

- Barbara de Angelis

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

- Jessamyn West

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

- Harrison Ford

When an old and distinguished person speaks to you, listen to him carefully and with respect -- but do not believe him. Never put your trust into anything but your own intellect. Your elder, no matter whether he has gray hair or has lost his hair, no matter whether he is a Nobel laureate -- may be wrong. The world progresses, year by year, century by century, as the members of the younger generation find out what was wrong among the things that their elders said. So you must always be skeptical -- always think for yourself.

- Linus Pauling

Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.

- Austin O'Malley

Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.

- Aristotle

Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

- Hosea Ballou

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

- Virginia Woolf

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

- Albert Einstein

My idea of Hell is to be young again.

- Marge Piercy

With 60 staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs.

- James Thurber

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

- Oscar Wilde

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

- W. Somerset Maugham

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

- Vincent van Gogh

We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Youth has no age.

- Pablo Picasso


and that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

- William Wordsworth




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