Quotes About Reflection

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present.

As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it

One of the worst things that can happen in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.

It is easy to become a monk in one's old age.

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

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.

At my age flowers scare me.

At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page and if I'm not there I carry on as usual.

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

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

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

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.

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