“Maturity is when you no longer get the urge to make snow angels in mud season” — Josh Stern Copy Share Image
I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Aging gracefully is recognizing that inner beauty is more meaningful than outer beauty. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it. The immature spend their lives exploring endless possibilities; then they… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
The easy path of aging is to become a thick-skinned, unbudging curmudgeon, a battle-ax. To grow soft and sweet is the harder… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Men are like a fine wine. They start out as grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands… — Julia Caroline Dorr Copy Share Image
he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
They say that age kills the fire inside of a man, that he hears Death coming, he opens the door and says,… — Anthony Quinn Copy Share Image
Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Strange to be almost fifty, no? I feel like I just understood how to be young." "Yes! It's like the last day… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“Old age breeds the miracle of recall. You have no short-term memory atall; you can’t remember what you did minutes ago, but… — Vicki Covington Copy Share Image
The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity… — Wilhelm Ostwald Copy Share Image
In many ways, the physical dimension of life becomes less important as the soul enlarges. In my late twenties, I was astonished… — Wendy Lustbader Copy Share Image
Maturity gives us jealous eyes. We look with jealousy on the younger woman because she doesn't know as much now as we… — Virginia Graham Copy Share Image
“If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A decade ago, my poems were precious little boxes, small and claustrophobic, completely inward gazing. I didn't possess the command to speak… — Robin Beth Schaer Copy Share Image
“By the age of twenty, you know you're not going to be a rock star. By twenty-five, you know you're not going… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“As I got older, I thought about aging more, as we all do. I came to think of old age as a… — Lai Wen Copy Share Image
People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“You know, Aerosmith will be the thing that kills off your music. Not them directly, mind you. What they represent. Bands are… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“Sitting in the wicker rocking chair with her interrupted work in her lap, Amaranta watched Aureliano José, his chin covered with foam,… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty,… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
All of us, as we mature and grow up - if we're doing life right - we evolve. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“I was young enough to think that insecurity disappeared with maturity.” — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
Today, you're 50. Now we can round your age up to 100! Happy 50th birthday! — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders. — Confucius Copy Share Image
