Anais Nin:
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.
Ashley Montagu:
I want to die young at a ripe old age.
Benjamin Franklin:
All would live long, but none would be old.
Billie Burke:
Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
Carl Jung:
Among all my patients in the second half of life ... there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
Cicero:
As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age: first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.
Clarence Darrow:
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
Coco Chanel:
A woman has the age she deserves.
Cornelius Otis Skinner:
There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.
Dr. Johnson:
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.
Edith Wharton:
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Edna Ferber:
Being an old maid is like death by drowning -- a really delightful sensation after you have ceased struggling.
Elizabeth Arden:
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Eric Hoffer:
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.
Florida Scott-Maxwell:
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
Florida Scott-Maxwell:
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld:
The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.
H. L. Mencken:
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Harriet Beecher Stowe:
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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