Quotes About Life

Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90.

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without, being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can do for those who study it.

One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful.

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

We can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life but they would assassinate you.

I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miserly trifles of comfort and self-interest. I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

I don't worry about it because we are all growing old. If I were the only one I would worry. But we're all in the same boat, and all of my friends are coming with me. We all go toward old age. How many years left we don't know. We just have to accept it.

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to an end.

King David and King Solomon Led merry, merry lives, With many, many lady friends And many, many wives; But when old age crept over them, With many, many qualms, King Solomon wrote the Proverbs And King David wrote the Psalms.

At my age flowers scare me.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.

Old age is not total misery, experience helps.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee.