A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Films are deprived of the conventional elderly figures now. They are more into yo moms and dads. — Alok Nath Copy Share Image
“there is nothing like the force of an immature child to test the maturity level in a parent.” — Deborah MacNamara Copy Share Image
You really made me grow mature enough, But still; I lack enough maturity. Still, I cry for the things, I know; I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult,… — Charles E. Burchfield Copy Share Image
Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself. — John MacNaughton Copy Share Image
“Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The older a wizard grows, the more silent he becomes, like a woody vine growing over time to choke a garden path,… — F.T. McKinstry Copy Share Image
Experts in aging make a distinction between passive aging and purposeful aging. Successful, purposeful aging calls for continued involvement, relationships, discipline, and… — George Sweeting Copy Share Image
When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Aging does not make women powerless objects of pity but colorful and entertaining individuals and, on occasion, fire-breathing dragons that wise people… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins… — Robert Blair Copy Share Image
I want to tell people approaching and perhaps fearing old age that it is a time of discovery. If they say "Of… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow; And then I… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“We achieve some measure of adulthood when we recognize our parents as they really were, without sentimentalizing or mythologizing, but also without… — Carl Sagan Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
“I am leery of suggesting the idea that endings are controllable. No one ever really has control. Physics and biology and accident… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“The beauty myth sets it up this way: A high rating as an art object is the most valuable tribute a woman… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction. The mature person can face unpleasantness, frustration, discomfort… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
Aging is no accident. It is necessary to the human condition, intended by the soul. We become more characteristic of who we… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“Looking at death can be life-affirming. It doesn’t need to mire us in thoughts of uselessness, nihilism, self-recrimination, and indifference to the… — Brent Green Copy Share Image
“...alone in this city, alone on this sea. The days were strewn about him, he was a drunkard of days. He had… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“The thing about old friends is not that they love you, but that they know you. They remember that disastrous New Year's… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
