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Quotes About Awareness

The hardest people to convince they are at retirement age are children at bedtime.
~ Shannon Fife
Middle Age - Later than you think and sooner than you expect.
~ Earl Wilson
You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.
~ Seymour Hicks
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.
~ Sean Connery
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
~ James A Michener
In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.
~ Matthew Perry
In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.
~ Rachel Carson
This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
~ Arthur C Clarke
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
~ Emily Dickinson
Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least, get out of the way so you won't get run over.
~ Miriam Makeba
He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
~ Oscar Wilde
Have you noticed that all the people in favour of birth control are already born?
~ Benny Hill
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
~ Dean Martin
I've never been drunk, but often I've been overserved.
~ George Gobel
I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs.
~ Unknown
Bush said today he is being stalked. He said wherever he goes, people are following him. Finally, someone told him, 'Psst. That's the Secret Service.'
~ Jay Leno
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
~ Will Rogers
Don't smoke too much, drink too much, eat too much or work too much. We're all on the road to the grave -- but there's no need to be in the passing lane.
~ Robert Orben
Always drink upstream from the herd.
~ Will Rogers
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death was Nature's way of telling you to slow down.
~ Terry Pratchett
Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.
~ Mark Twain
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
~ Jimi Hendrix