Quotes About Perspective

A dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?

In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India.

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.

How the hell should I know? Most of the people my age are dead. You could look it up.

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

I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years.

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasance, age full of care; Youth like the summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.

Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going.

Middle Age - Later than you think and sooner than you expect.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

I've honestly not been too aware of my age until I went to the doctor for a full check-up. He said I had the heart of a young man - 'but you're not young, you're 40.

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

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

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

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

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.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

At my age flowers scare me.