Aging

“How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?” ― Satchel Paige ...

"When I was young, I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they ...

"Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened." - Terry Pratchett ...

“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.” - Samuel Ullman ...

"How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age." - Margaret Atwood ...

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ...

"Ancient peoples invented rites of passage in part to break the spell of childhood and move the initiate from the mother's lap to the lap of the world. To this day, a person must dismantle the spell of childhood or ...

“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.” - Thomas Bailey Aldrich ...

“In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.” - Anne Sophie Swetchine ...

"Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man." - Leon Trotsky ...