The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live...
[We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born. letter to Otto Juliusburger
There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to
reach this stage of wisdom.
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
Live your life and forget your age.
A woman has the age she deserves.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.
Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay.
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy.
Old age ain't no place for sissies.
All diseases run into one, old age.
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.
Old age puts more wrinkles in our minds than on our faces.
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
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