Aging

"Don't ever think the poetry is dead in an old man because his forehead is wrinkled, or that his manhood has left him when his hand trembles! If they ever were there, they are there still." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr ...

“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 ...

"It is the runner in me who will age gracefully. It is the runner in me who understands that the beauty of my body is in the things it can do, not the way it looks doing them. The runner ...