“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Age
John Barrymore on Dreams
“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.” 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
Alice Roosevelt Longworth on Youth
“The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.” Continue reading
Henry Austin Dobson on Time
“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.” 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
Tom Stoppard on Age
“I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.” Continue reading
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
Victor Hugo on Age
“When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.” 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
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