Quotes About Reflection

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and how well you look.

The newer people, of this modern age, are more eager to amass than to realize.

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.

For life in general, there is but one decree; youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

Middle age is Janus-faced. As we look back on our accomplishments and our failures to achieve the things we wanted, we look ahead to the time we have left to us. Our children are gaining life, and our parents are losing it.

Age is¦wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly.

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.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

In old age, one should do something monumental.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

We tried not to age, but Time had its rage.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Old age is not a joy, but death is not a gain.

I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.

Midlife crisis is that moment when you realize your children and your clothes are about the same age.

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

I put my hand on the dark skin and felt the chill of centuries long gone. It was as if I had touched the Stone Age.

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.

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.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.