All Quotes

"There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning."

"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made"

"What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now."

"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."

"One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you're tired."

"On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever."

"All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old."

"Gross well says that children are young because they play, and not vice versa; and he might have added, men grow old because they stop playing, and not conversely, for play is, at bottom, growth, and at the top of the intellectual scale it is the eternal type of research from sheer love of truth."

"And the 24 elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshipped God who sits on the throne and said: “Amen! Praise Jah!” Also, a voice came from the throne and said: “Be praising our God, all you his slaves, who fear him, the small ones and the great.”"

"Maybe theoretical physics is degenerating but I don't know into what. Let me just say something first. I have noticed when I was younger, that lots of old men in the field couldn't understand new ideas very well, and resisted them with one method or another, and that they were very foolish in saying these ideas were wrong — such as Einstein not being able to take quantum mechanics. I'm an old man now, and these are new ideas, and they look crazy to me, and they look like they're on the wrong track. Now I know that other old men have been very foolish in saying things like this, and, therefore, I would be very foolish to say this is nonsense. I am going to be very foolish, because I do feel strongly that this is nonsense! I can't help it, even though I know the danger in such a point of view. So perhaps I could entertain future historians by saying I think all this superstring stuff is crazy and is in the wrong direction."

"Work, play–at sixty our powers and tastes are what they were at seventeen. Old men in the bad old days used to renounce, retire, take to religion, spend their time reading, thinking–thinking!""

"Every child, at birth, is the Universal Man. But, as it grows, we turn it into "a petty man." It should be the function of education to turn it again into the original "Universal Man.""

"One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it."

"The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion."

"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."

"You never lose who you were, you just grow around you, like a tree."

"The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude."

"The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."

"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."

"The great renunciation of old age as it prepared for death, wraps itself up in its chrysalis, which may be observed at the end of lives that are at all prolonged, even in old lovers who have lived for one another, in old friends bound by the closest ties of mutual sympathy, who, after a certain year, cease to make the necessary journey or even to cross the street to see one another, cease to correspond, and know that they will communicate no more in this world."

"Women of the 24th century consider a man in his early fifties like Picard has having just entered his best years. Active duty Starfleet males, (and females for that matter) have the double attractiveness of being in prime physical condition usually through their seventies and being more aware most humans of the rich variety of personal relationships."

"Getting older was definitely preferable to an up close and personal meeting with the Grim Reaper."

"No man loves life like him that's growing old."

"It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox."

"Age overtakes us all; Our temples first; then on o'er cheek and chin, Slowly and surely, creep the frosts of Time. Up and do somewhat, ere thy limbs are sere."

"Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man."

"The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young."

"There's one advantage to being 102. There's no peer pressure."

"An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing."

"Although we live by strife, We're always sorry to begin it, For what, we ask, is life Without a touch of Poetry in it?"

"Some men enjoy the constant strife Of days with work and worry rife, But that is not my dream of life: I think such men are crazy."

"Still a Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me."

"The victories of Right Are born of strife. There were no Day were there no Night, Nor, without dying, Life."

"Strife and love. Are they the workings of one mind? The features of the same face?"

"There is no advance without strife."

"When you go to Sarajevo what you experience... is life."

"In Sarajevo, I ate a lot of sweets, drank plenty of water and read Nero Wolfe."

"The people of Bosnia -- meaning Bosniaks, Croats, and Serbs -- could each say they're speaking their own, individual language. They say that it's their national language, and that it's not for Europe, Belgrade, or Zagreb to decide differently... The same is true for Montenegrins. If they think Montenegrin is a distinct language, then basically it is. If on the other hand they decide to share a language with Serbs or Croats, that would work just as well. But the tendency here is to see each of these languages as special and distinct."

"Sarajevo had the best organized Winter Games in Olympic history ... Goodbye dear Sarajevo."

"Maybe we'll meet again someday... Someday!"

"I do not mind if all I am is just a friend to you, but all I want to know right now is if you think about me too."

"I take a look around and all these things I found, I call it blind hatred."

"So I can Rest my head..."

"Then again it seems much more than that but i'm not sure exactly what you're thinking"

"Well I toss and turn all night thinking of your ways of affection/ But to find that it's not different at all/ So I throw away my past mistakes and contemplate my future/ That's when I say/ What the hey!/ Would it last forever?/ You and I together hand in hand we run away/ Far away!"

"I hold my breath and close my eyes and... / (Dream about her) / 'Cause she's 2000 light years away..."

"Juliet's trying to find out what she wants, but she don't know/ Experience has got her down..."

"My mental stability reaches its bitter end / And all my senses are coming unglued / Is there any cure for this disease someone called love / Not as long as there are girls like you."

"If anyone can hear me slap some sense in me/ But you turn your head/ And I end up talking to myself"

"There's a boy who fogs his world and now he's getting lazy/ There's no motivation and frustration makes him crazy/ He makes a plan to take a stand but always ends up sitting/ Someone help him up or he is gonna end up quitting"