I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.
I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.