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I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one's eyes in a continual cascade of form and meaning. (Ansel Adams)
But time growing old teaches all things. (Aeschylus)
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them; they show us the state of our decay. (Brian W. Aldiss)
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age. (Thomas Bailey Aldrich)
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. (Muhammad Ali)
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. (Woody Allen)
Of course now that I am retired I see it from a totally different perspective, the bad days just don't look so bad to me, and I try to share that with Michael. (Mario Andretti)
-lived: ca. 450-ca. 388 BCE...
The old are in a second childhood. (Aristophanes)
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing. (Aristotle)
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. (Louis Armstrong)
As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon. (Rudolf Arnheim)
-dated: ca. AD 400...
Now that I am old and infirm I fear I shall no more be able to roam among the beautiful mountains... I can only paint my pictures and spread my colour over the cloud-topped mountain to transmit for future ages the hidden meaning which lies beyond all description in words. (Chinese Artist)
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. (Herbert Henry Asquith)
I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there. (Fred Astaire)
Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. (Margaret Atwood)
Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long time. (Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber)
Age breeds caution and a yearning for security. Youth invites risk and challenge. As we grow older it becomes important to be able to balance our sensibilities with our curiosities. (Elizabeth Azzolina)
Always I'm feeling, 'You're never going to work again.' That's going to happen one day, but I hope I'm not alive. (Lauren Bacall)
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. (Sir Francis Bacon)
How disappointing to discover we aren't going to be young and strong and live forever... The challenge and the fascination of artistic creation is the best distraction in the world... we're the lucky ones. (Janet Best Badger)
People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately. (Russell Baker)
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. (Lucille Ball)
The only thing I regret about my past life is the length of it. If I had my past life over again I'd make all the same mistakes – only sooner. (Tallulah Bankhead)
Neither age, intelligence, nor acquired wisdom alone guarantees a long life. However, only an acquired wisdom that comes with age allows you to see what benefits there may be in being stupid and dying young. (Che Baraka)
Painting is almost like a religious experience, which should go on and on. Age just gives you the freedom to do some things you've never done before. Great work can come at any stage of your life. (Will Barnet)
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. (Bernard Baruch)
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny. (Simone de Beauvoir)
We grow neither better nor worse as we grow old, but more like ourselves. (May Lamberton Becker)
I'm glad I haven't lived in vain. (Saul Bellow)
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. (Jack Benny)
I hope I never get so old I get religious. (Ingmar Bergman)
When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about. (Ingmar Bergman)
longevity, n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death. (Ambrose Bierce)
age, n. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit. (Ambrose Bierce)
-when asked, at age 97, at what age the sex drive goes...
You'll have to ask somebody older than me. (Eubie Blake)
Age has given me a serenity, and an understanding of who I am and what my limits are. (Barbara Boldt)
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart – and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love. (Karl von Bonstetten)
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. (Elizabeth Bowen)
With age, art and life become one. (Georges Braque)
The older you get, the fewer things it seems too late to do. (Robert Brault)
Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure. (Emily Bronte)
You know you're old when you've lost all your marvels. (Merry Browne)
Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage. (Robert Browning)
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. (Robert Browning)
Grow old along with me! / The best is yet to be, / The last of life, for which the first was made. (Robert Browning)
What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold. (Robert Browning)
This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday. I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security. (Art Buchwald)
I just don't want to die the same day Castro dies. (Art Buchwald)
Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. (Pearl S. Buck)
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill-placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child. (Charles Burchfield)
But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment. (Fanny Burney)
Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left. (George Burns)
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it. (Samuel Butler)
Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. (Samuel Butler)
As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face. (Joseph Campbell)
-Lochiel's Warning, 1801
'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, / And coming events cast their shadows before. (Thomas Campbell)
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind. (Albert Camus)
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. (Thomas Carlyle)
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. (Thomas Carlyle)
Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs. (Emily Carr)
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash. (Emily Carr)
Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens. (Lillian Carter)
To retire is the beginning of death. (Pablo Casals)
-at age 95...
I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true. (Pablo Casals)
I am old and ill, and I have sworn to die painting. (Paul Cezanne)
I am a child who is getting on. (Marc Chagall)
-All Fools, act 5, sc.1 (1605)
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. (George Chapman)
Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do. (William Merritt Chase)
Aging isn't that bad if you consider the alternatives. (Maurice Chevalier)
Good gracious! What there is to admire and how little time there is to see it in! For the first time one begins to envy Methuselah. (Winston Churchill)
I'm at the age where I don't need an acid trip to feel naked... to feel that I don't exist. Now a self-portrait is almost a reminder to me that I do exist. (Francesco Clemente)
I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face. (Leonard Cohen)
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans. (Colette)
Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life. (Kitty O'Neill Collins)
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present? (Confucius)
Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius. (Cyril Connolly)
One doesn't age while one is painting. (Natalie Barrett Cook)
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places. (E. Joseph Cossman)
Be kind to an old man. (Walter Cronkite)
By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere. (Billy Crystal)
Your life is finite, your death is guaranteed. Rather than wait 'til old age before regarding each day as precious, you have the choice to regard each day as precious right now. (Jeff Davidson)
Old age ain't no place for sissies. (Bette Davis)
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. (Doris Day)
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. (Edgar Degas)
-on his deathbed...
Damn, and just when I was starting to get it! (Edgar Degas)
We turn not older with the years but newer every day. (Emily Dickinson)
With young people everything is much more on the surface – all the emotions; when you get older you know how to hide things. (Rineke Dijkstra)
Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty... But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out. (Phyllis Diller)
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret. (Benjamin Disraeli)
We all get heavier as we get older because there's a lot more information in our heads. (Vlade Divac)
Now that I'm retired, I can have all the contemplative time I can consume. (Nic East)
Old age transfigures or fossilizes. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so. (Tryon Edwards)
Though age and infirmity overtake me and I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still to be thankful for life and for time's oldest memories that are good and sweet, and may the evening's twilight find me gentle still. (Max Ehrmann)
Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well. (Eight-year-old)
The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first – a process which often reduces the most complex human problems to manageable proportions. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. (George Eliot)
As we grow old... the beauty steals inward. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get older it becomes more and more difficult. (Tracey Emin)
One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older. I am, in fact, at this very moment gaining my looks. (Nora Ephron)
If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that. (Epictetus)
If only youth knew, if only age could. (Henri Estienne)
I have no age when I walk into my studio. Age gets left behind out there, along with the dirty dishes and the dust balls. (Cathy Fink)
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. (B. C. Forbes)
A great way to find out what you want from life is to write your own epitaph. (Libbie Fudim)
Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful. (Marshall Ganz)
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. (James A. Garfield)
Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness. (Jose Ortega Y Gasset)
Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've finished what I've undertaken. (Paul Gauguin)
It may well be that the pictures of Courbet, Manet, Monet and their like contain beauties which escape the notice of such old romantic heads as ours, already streaked with silver threads. (Theophile Gautier)
Our learning power can improve with age if we awaken the power of Curiosita. (Michael J. Gelb)
As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event. (Robert Genn)
There is still no cure for the common birthday. (John Glenn)
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. (Vincent van Gogh)
I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. (Oliver Goldsmith)
As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have. (Andy Goldsworthy)
When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are. (Cary Grant)
Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him! (Franz Grillparzer)
We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. (Lynn Hall)
We do not necessarily improve with age: for better or worse we become more like ourselves. (Peter Hall)
When I was younger and less experienced I was more daring in my work. Though my anatomy was off, my technique was sloppy and my dimensions appeared flat, I was trying more difficult things than I do now. (Christina Hans)
As we get older we come to have more faith in our own abilities to be both frail, lost, out of time and uninspired and to know that the loss of focus is giving us a wider scope, a richer experience to bring to our lives and our art. (Cherie Hanson)
Old brains can function beautifully when stimulated. It's learning for learning's sake without worrying about all the stuff young people have to face. (Cathie Harrison)
I'm now at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was. (Rex Harrison)
When a man is sixty or seventy, he may be able to do a thing and the whole world rejoices. You can't begin too early, for this is not a thing of a month or a day. (Charles Hawthorne)
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary. (Ernest Hemingway)
I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back. (Hermann Hesse)
Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before the age of thirty-five. (Joel Hildebrand)
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. (William Ernest Hocking)
Whether one is twenty, forty, or sixty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; whether yesterday was full of sun or storm, or one of those dull days with no weather at all, life begins each morning! (Leigh Mitchell Hodges)
At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty I'll have made more progress. At ninety I'll have penetrated the mystery of things. At a hundred I shall have reached something marvellous, but when I am a hundred and ten everything I do, the smallest dot, will be alive. (Katsushika Hokusai)
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside us. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Only think of my being alive with a reputation! (Winslow Homer)
I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition. (E. J. Hughes)
As we age, fewer and fewer things in the world around us lend themselves to inspiration. Some of us continue to toss in the chum anyway, and hope for a hit. (Maryanne Jacobsen)
The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth. (Robinson Jeffers)
The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four years old. (Brian Johnson)
I'd rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV. (Janis Joplin)
...I have fears that I may cease to be before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain... (John Keats)
I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent. (Kathe Kollwitz)
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. (Madeleine L'Engle)
When we are young and again when we are old, we depend heavily on the affection of others. Between these stages we usually feel that we can do everything without help from others and that other people's affection is simply not important. But at this stage I think it is very important to keep deep human affection. (Dalai Lama)
You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind. (Timothy Leary)
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year. (Tom Lehrer)
I feel young all the time because every morning I wake up at six o'clock and I have something new in my mind from when I was sleeping, and I want to get up and do it. (Hui Lin Liu)
For age is opportunity no less / Than youth itself, though in another dress, / And as the evening twilight fades away / The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
-on Jean-Michel Basquiat...
Dying young is the easy way out. It's much harder to keep your edge and keep it going. (Robert Longo)
This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me. So it's very much finding my own place. (Yo-Yo Ma)
It goes against an artist's grain to retire. But whether he retires or not, he will age... What work will get done in the remaining time? ...Can he find a little peace in this twilight? Or must he still rush on, restlessly and hungrily, to the very end? (Eric Maisel)
Shouldn't it give us pause that the oldest works of art are as impressive today in their beauty and spontaneity as they were many thousands of years ago? (Kasimir Malevich)
By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth. (Marya Mannes)
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. (Groucho Marx)
From Bonheur de Vivre – I was thirty-five then – to this cut-out – I am eighty-two – I have not changed; not in the way my friends mean who want to compliment me, no matter what, on my good health, but because all this time I have looked for the same things, which I have perhaps realized by different means... (Henri Matisse)
-on dying...
I felt that in my case an exception would be made. (W. Somerset Maugham)
When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully. (W. Somerset Maugham)
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. (Andre Maurois)
-Boy's Life
Life itself does its best to take that memory of magic away from us. You don't know it's happening until one day you feel you've lost something but you're not sure what it is. It's like smiling at a pretty girl and she calls you 'sir.' It just happens. (Robert R. McGammon)
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. (Margaret Mead)
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. (H. L. Mencken)
Don't just count your years, make your years count. (George Meredith)
Only uncomfortable chairs become antiques; the comfortable ones wear out. (Bruce M. Miller)
I know I shall not live very long... If I've painted three good pictures, then I shall leave gladly with flowers in my hand and my hair. (Paula Modersohn-Becker)
I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm praying that I'll have a few more good years left to me... (Claude Monet)
I want to die young at a ripe old age. (Ashley Montagu)
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. (Michel de Montaigne)
If only the rest of our body could age so well as our eyes... (Brad Michael Moore)
-Culture in the City, poem
I do not hope to turn / To see the ageing moon, / Our lives are measured finally / By the twist of a coffee spoon. (Stephen Morris)
I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my paintings more contrapuntal, richer. (Robert Motherwell)
As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail. Like a generous host, she offers her brimming cups in endless variety... decorated with glorious paintings and enlivened with bands of music ever playing. (John Muir)
My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was fifty years old. But at that time I felt as though I had the strength for new deeds and ideas. (Edvard Munch)
It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself. (Hector Hugh Munro)
I never feel age... If you have creative work, you don't have age or time. (Louise Nevelson)
When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial. (Eugene O'Neill)
The soul never ages. My soul dances without my feet. I am the music. (Alev Oguz)
-Messenger
Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect? (Mary Oliver)
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. (George Orwell)
Don't clap too hard – it's a very old building. (John Osborne)
We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully - for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: What do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up. (Randy Pausch)
Age is not a handicap. Age is nothing but a number. It is how you use it. (Ethel Payne)
Live your life and forget your age. (Norman Vincent Peale)
You know, sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left. (Itzhak Perlman)
Aging for me has been a natural catalyst; it allowed my thoughts to clear, much as if I'd been drinking all night and then found enlightenment in a morning hangover. (Jim Pescott)
It takes a very long time to become young. (Pablo Picasso)
I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty – but only vaguely. At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it. (Camille Pissarro)
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. (Gloria Pitzer)
An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the phenomenon called contemporary, where it would be foolish of me to try to enter. But I can claim my own phenomenon... (Joseph Plaskett)
Some old men continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example. (Alexander Pope)
When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going. (Joseph Priestley)
There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle. (proverb)
I'm working, but there is so much still to be done! And it frightens me to think of my weight of years. But on we go, without fear or hesitation! (Giacomo Puccini)
We are all artists and we are all aging, but what a way to go! (Carl Purcell)
Birthdays: What is not a tombstone is a milestone. (Tanya Radic)
There's a moment for everyone when you fall into your own shadow and the fact is that it's your shadow and you're forced to live in it. And this is nothing to celebrate or not celebrate. It simply is. (Robert Rauschenberg)
Let's face it, few of us get a childhood that doesn't damage some part of our spirit, but as we age, we can heal ourselves. (Laury Ravenstein)
You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly. (Ronald Reagan)
To take up painting late in life is admirable because it is probably the most difficult thing you'll ever try. It will consume the rest of your life... So go for it, work hard, and above all learn to enjoy the process because that is your true reward. (William F. Reese)
The neat thing about art is there is no end to it. I can do this when I'm 95. As long as I have a hand that will move and a brain that will work, I can keep painting. (Todd Reifers)
The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly. (Pierre-Auguste Renoir)
-on seeing a portrait by Sargent...
This special and only genuine Henry James' face was not 'delivered' until he was a comparatively old man, so that for a greater part of his life he went about in disguise. (W. Graham Robertson)
I've learned... that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes. (Andy Rooney)
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. (Theodore Roosevelt)
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. (Jean Rostand)
-on Matisse's paper cutouts...
Though produced by a very old man who was mortally ill, they seem to come from the springtime of the world. (John Russell)
One of the final challenges for human beings is to get old with as much verve and gumption as possible. (Alison Judson Ryerson)
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. (Saki)
The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another "I" is beginning, and so far I have not had to complain of her. (George Sand)
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older one climbs with surprising strides. (George Sand)
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. (Dorothy Leigh Sayers)
Artists don't retire; they draw to a conclusion. (Graham Scholes)
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. (Charles Schulz)
I'm going to be 60, and I'm almost used to myself. (Martin Scorsese)
On the one hand, you're the same person, but as you get older, you change somewhat, and you never know how it's going to affect your work. (Martin Scorsese)
Spend all you have before you die, and do not outlive yourself. (George Bernard Shaw)
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. (George Bernard Shaw)
I love the fact that there are more and more young people out there who still want to make a flat two-dimensional surface come alive with three dimensional magic. (Burton Silverman)
Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee. (Hannah Whitall Smith)
My work life makes much less sense now than 20 years ago. It's Humpty-Dumpty-like in a way; I can't put the pieces back together. (Kiki Smith)
I grow old ever learning many things. (Solon)
Never too old to jump on the sofa. (Redenta Soprano)
I shall not grow conservative with age. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure. (Gertrude Stein)
We are always the same age inside. (Gertrude Stein)
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts. (Adlai Stevenson)
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. (Tom Stoppard)
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. (Abraham Sutzkever)
Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old. (Jonathan Swift)
When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was... I've been getting younger ever since. (Shirley Temple)
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. (Henry David Thoreau)
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. (James Thurber)
The old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. (J. R. R. Tolkien)
The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do. (David Toop)
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. (Leon Trotsky)
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. (Mark Twain)
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. (Mark Twain)
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. (Mark Twain)
Do not fear the aging of the body for it is the body's way of seeking the root. (Lao Tzu)
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. (Samuel Ullman)
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. (John Updike)
There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't. (John Updike)
I saw Michelangelo at work. He had passed his sixtieth year and although he was not very strong, yet in a quarter of an hour he caused more splinters to fall from a very hard block of marble than three young masons in three or four times as long... (Blaise de Vigenere)
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. (Charles Wadsworth)
-shortly before his death, 1946...
I would dearly love to take up the brush again, but I realize that I am an old man and that I cannot set the world afire. (William Wendt)
I have so many projects to work on I'm going to have to live to at least 120 to get some of them done. (Jack White)
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. (Oscar Wilde)
Alas, I am dying beyond my means. (Oscar Wilde)
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again – as I always am when I write. (Virginia Woolf)
It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It's a very difficult thing for an artist to look back at his work. (Andrew Wyeth)
I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now. (William Butler Yeats)
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