“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Age
Robertson Davies on Books
“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.” Continue reading
Tom Stoppard on Age
“I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.” Continue reading
Alice Roosevelt Longworth on Youth
“The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.” Continue reading
Victor Hugo on Age
“When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.” Continue reading
Roger Allen on Age
“In case you’re worried about what’s going to become of the younger generation, it’s going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.” Continue reading
Marcus Tullius Cicero on Age
“As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.” Continue reading
Amos Bronson Alcott on Age
“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.” Continue reading
Agatha Christie on Age
“I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find – at the age of fifty, say – that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about… It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.” Continue reading
Woody Allen on Life
“You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.” Continue reading