Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Maturity means being able to tolerate, on all sorts of planes, uncertainty and not knowing.” — Hazel Johns Copy Share Image
How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs. — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
People like to do what they used to do after they've stopped being able to do it. — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
“ This is the true wine of astonishment: "We are not over when we think we are.” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Younger theologians will continue to pursue and understand truth rather than deconstructing it, as a lot of their elders seemed to want… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Today, elderly people are discarded when, in reality, they are the seat of wisdom of the society...the right to life means allowing… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
For example, in Vitamin K, the clotting proteins get it first... and only after they're satisfied do you prevent calcification of the… — Bruce Ames Copy Share Image
Victory is the thought transformation resulting from comprehending that physical immortality...perpetual longevity, sans illness and aging...eternal, healthy, youthful life in your living… — Linda Goodman Copy Share Image
Up to one's last breath, one may retain the simple joys of childhood, the poetic ecstasies of the young person, the enthusiasms… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
“When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Madrére Sybille, an elder of the Sistéria, is speaking to twenty-four year old Sistére Graice: Sybille – I won’t lecture you but… — Bob Craton Copy Share Image
“Regret and celebration are equally important facets of aging. Throughout this book, these two aspects will appear in various guises and voices.… — Lewis Richmond Copy Share Image
Losing friends and spouses is an inevitable part of aging, and many people have a tendency to go quietly into semi-isolation. Instead,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Only in America, Rabbi Golden, do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“To be mature you have to realize what you value most. It is extraordinary to discover that comparatively few people reach this… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
“If you happen to be white in a white country; pretty according to the dictates of fashion; rich in a country where… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“LADY BRACKNELL Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Reading lives is the primary activity. Reading literature, although we engage in it more intentionally and more mindfully, is the secondary one.… — William L. Randall Copy Share Image
“Suffering creates a vivid contrast illuminating joy, happiness, and satisfaction. It is a harsh lesson on the other side of sublime. We… — Brent Green Copy Share Image
“I lived through all these times, these great events, without caring very much, concerned with my own aging rather than the world's.… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“We are no longer awkward younglings. Our enemies may be fearsome, but so are we. It is time we remind them of… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
The ubiquitous term "anti-aging" has become meaningless. Women today want to look like a more revitalized version of themselves. — Sophie Heyman Uliano Copy Share Image
We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away. — Jim Broadbent Copy Share Image
The anti-aging advert that I would like to see is a baby covered in cream saying, 'Aah, I've used too much' — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
“For the youth, the changes were too slow. For the aging traditionalists, the changes were blasphemous.” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Aging is a chance to make what was good, great, and what was never so good, better... — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“It happened to me the year I retired. You reach a certain age, and it all kicks in: Social Security, Medicare, and… — Sigrid Nunez Copy Share Image
Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
It is the youngest in the family who tends to the elders to learn about the sacredness of life and the beauty… — Misty Upham Copy Share Image
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.” — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
“Dream like a child. Reason like an elder. Play like a youth. Work like an adult.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Nice saying by an elderly person: just listen to my advice, not because I am always right... But because I have more… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock. — Ben Lindsey Copy Share Image
You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
