“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
Category Archives: Age
Robertson Davies on Books
Doug Larson on Aging
“The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.” Continue reading
Randall Jarrell on Children
“One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.” Continue reading
Maurice Chevalier on Age
“A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.” Continue reading
Doctor Who on Maturity
“There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t be childish sometimes.” 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
Doug Larson on Age
“The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.” Continue reading
Henri Frederic Amiel on Age
“I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.” Continue reading
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg on Belief
“First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again – and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.” Continue reading
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