Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.
You need to have really wasted your life to envy the young for being young.
You know you're old when you're watching Karate Kid and you realize you're more attracted to Mr. Miagi than Ralph Macchio.
But I want to write poetry of an age dancing in the tunes of ruptures that is full of life.
With mortal age comes the immense need for childish charms. Like a fine wine, sweetens with maturity.
114 isn't as old as it used to be they say its the new 104.
A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant.
He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.
Only little boys and old men sneer at love.
The good thing about being old is not being young.
I wondered if that's what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a place of peace. I had always wanted to get old so I didn't have to care anymore, but I began to think that it would be best just to skip the getting older part and just die.
Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what it is? Luck.
Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.
Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.
Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way other than just getting older.
Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You don't even need much religion.
Some men like shiny new toys. Others like the priceless antique.
A lady is as young as the gentleman she feels," said Roy and cackled happily.
It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.