(585 quotes found)
“The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.”
Virginia Woolf
“Realize that when you get older, you either get senile or become gracious. There's no in-between. You become senile when you think the world short-changed you, or everybody wakes up to screw you. You become gracious when you realize that you have something the world needs, and people are happy to see you when you come into the room.”
Carlos Santana
“As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.”
Zachary Scott
“Ah - but I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now”
Bob Dylan
“Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.”
Dale E. Turner
“As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.”
Dorothy L. Sayers
“As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you”
Gwendolyn Brooks
“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.”
Audrey Hepburn
“I'm not dead. I mean, I may be getting older, but I'm not dead!”
Sheryl Crow
“If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.”
Mitch Albom