3 December 2020 Dwight L. Moody Preparation for old age should begin not later than one’s teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
3 December 2020 Jack Nicholson Age is the first limitation on roles that I’ve ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.
3 December 2020 Lisa Leslie Everyone talks about age, but it’s not about age. It’s about work ethic. Winning never gets old.
3 December 2020 Maggie Kuhn Old age is not a disease – it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
3 December 2020 E. Joseph Cossman Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
3 December 2020 Stephen Fry I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
3 December 2020 Pope John XXIII Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
3 December 2020 Francis Ford Coppola It’s ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn’t even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.
3 December 2020 John Mayer Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.
3 December 2020 Johan Huizinga Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
3 December 2020 Louis Kronenberger Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
3 December 2020 Desiderius Erasmus The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
3 December 2020 Fiona Apple The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I’m 19?
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
3 December 2020 Michael Phelps This is my 20th year in the sport. I’ve known swimming and that’s it. I don’t want to swim past age 30 if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I’ll be 31. I’m looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.
3 December 2020 Jean Paul As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
3 December 2020 Anne Burrell I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant business. I loved not having to go to an office. I loved making people happy.
3 December 2020 Bob Hope I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything till noon. That’s when it’s time for my nap.
3 December 2020 Lascelles Abercrombie The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.
3 December 2020 Andre Gide It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
