Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Respect my elders? I respect whoever respects me, regardless of age. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy. — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Be a good listener to the elders. There is a good chance that you will learn something in 20 minutes or less… — Fredio Samples Copy Share Image
I sometimes miss the sense of excitement that I remember having when I was younger. I miss that sense of, 'Oh wow.'… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty. — Carre Otis Copy Share Image
A lot of it is maturity and getting older. You know, sort of getting married and realizing you're not out there for… — Mardy Fish Copy Share Image
Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“A story can take children places they've never been before and tell them about things that happened to folks even older than… — Wu Ming-Yi Copy Share Image
“My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Our concepts of aging really should be blurring because there are plenty of people who make it to older ages who aren't… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
But from the perspective of the aging parent, there is no major difference between four and fifteen, except that when your child… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Marketers are making retirement respectable. Instead of being the beginning of the end, it sounds like Nirvana-do what you want without any… — Jerry Della Femina Copy Share Image
I take two walks up hills each day, and bike ride each morning. I also have an exercise bike to increase my… — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
“Since I'm no longer a senior employee, but an old employee, everyone else has lost interest in me, and this has been… — Olga Ravn Copy Share Image
The essential discovery of maturity has little if anything to do with information about the names, the locations, and the sequence of… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“It is only in the peach innocence of youth that life is at its crest on top of the wheel. And there… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Years from now, I’ll be sitting in my wheelchair in the brightest spot in Amsterdam Park, next to the old wooden swings,… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“I've always figured it that you die each day and each day is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Without knowing why or how, I found myself in love with this strange Wanderess. Maybe I was just in love with the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“It was the ultimate cautionary tale, the moral being Don't fall, as if they were made of glass. In a sense they… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
a process of aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was being treated as… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Yes,” said Ravna, “on Nyjora.” In the Age of Princesses, there had been the Elder Princess and the Younger, the Techie. The… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty-seven-year-old, I’m a fifty-year-old. I’ve… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I've got to make a new life for myself, I'm out to learn how to enjoy my leisure now that I'm retired.… — Walter Huston Copy Share Image
