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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

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It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date read more

It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in a small way. -Edith Wharton.

by Edith Wharton Found in: Age Quotes,
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

by Fay Weldon Found in: Age Quotes,
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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never read more

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

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The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and read more

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

by Florida Scott-maxwell Found in: Age Quotes,
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

by Abraham Lincoln Found in: Age Quotes,
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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

by Mark Twain Found in: Age Quotes, Mind Quotes,
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in read more

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

by Henri Frederic Amiel Found in: Age Quotes,
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If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never read more

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

by James A. Garfield Found in: Age Quotes,
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