(11 quotes found)
“A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June. . . . If it was only the other way! If it was I who were to be always young, and the picture that were to grow old! For this--for this--I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give!”
Oscar Wilde
“At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.”
Benjamin Franklin
“We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!”
“Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.”
“As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.”
“All diseases run into one, old age.”
“Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.”