Aging Quote by John Godfrey Saxe

I find I am growing fonder of gardening, listening to music and reading.

— Sharmila Tagore

Growing up is about being wise enough to detach from people that never should of been attached in the first place.

— Anonymous

“It was from us they learnt the secret of life: that we grow old without growing wise. They realized that nothing happened when we…

— John le Carré

Everyone, everywhere, and all the time, used to laugh at me when I was growing up. So, when I was around 18, I thought,…

— Emo Philips

I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind…

— Adam Sandler

“The very idea!" he said, with another big laugh. "You, growing up in a dump like Yoroido. That's like making tea in a bucket!”

— Arthur Golden

Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to…

— Walter Benjamin

It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds…

— George Eliot

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyous words in the language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding…

— Elise M. Boulding

“I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which…

— Anonymous

“Even the snow melts, let alone the frugal regards of a soul confident in its own eternity.”

— Sorin Cerin