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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
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I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when
it's time for my nap.
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You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the
cake.
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
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Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
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I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him
from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.
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In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent.
We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
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There is still no cure for the common birthday.
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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing
from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but
never remembers her age.
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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to
feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own
esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.
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He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's
bottled.
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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book
have M. D. after them.
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep
your mind young.
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the
records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask
me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied
about my age. Now that's true!!!
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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age,
but they die young.
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Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a
scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
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At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five
I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am
stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity
is only a short break in adolescence?
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Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
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Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar
haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
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Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early
on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
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The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on
with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for
building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
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The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge
that you'll grow out of it.
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Old age is no place for sissies.
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The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and
more important as one grows older.
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Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I
begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
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When you become senile, you won't know it.
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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you
are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable
front stall as spectator.
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The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and
getting poorer.
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Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching
up with Mother Nature.
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We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into
helping them enjoy it.
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him,
so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that
follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to
increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's
end.
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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older
she gets the more interested he is in her.
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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth.
Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us
hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
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Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty
- they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
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To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants
of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the
lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
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Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
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A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body,
the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise,
study, and love.
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It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years
older than I am.
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I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be
proud of that.
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are
silly. You're as old as you feel.
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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot
feel old, no matter what his years may be.
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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful,
reverent that is to triumph over old age.
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How much
more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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Speak
when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Holding
on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at
someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
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Heaven
has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
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Anger as
soon as fed is dead - 'Tis starving makes it fat.
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Never go
to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
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Anger
and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
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For
every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
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Always
write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
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If a
small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something
about your size?
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The
world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't
angry enough.
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He who
angers you conquers you.
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Anger is
a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less
than he had been
before - it takes something from him.
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No man
can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
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Get mad,
then get over it.
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The
United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international
efforts in the world.
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When
angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
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One
should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more
angry to the end.
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I do not
fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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The
computer is a moron.
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Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no
machine can replace the
human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
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The real
danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will
begin to think like computers.
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Home
computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the
consumption
of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
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What do
we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
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Why
shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?
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Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
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To err
is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
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They
have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
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Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they
make it easier to do don't need to be done.
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Think?
Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
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Treat
your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a
new one every six months.
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Never
trust a computer you can't throw out a window.