Quotes About Perspective

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.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

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.

I think he [Archie Bunker] is in every man my age, no matter what he does, whether he's a vice president at Chase or a cab driver.

How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.

Young people don't know what age is, and old people forget what youth was.

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.

There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.