Showing posts with label : age and aging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label : age and aging. Show all posts

January 21, 2007

When you have loved as she has...


When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

--W. Somerset Maugham

Common sense is the collection of...


Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

--Albert Einstein

Science is in its essence nothing but...


Science is in its essence nothing but the systematic pursuit of knowledge, and knowledge, whatever ill-uses bad men make of it, is in its essence good. To lose faith in knowledge is to lose faith in the best of man's capacities; and therefore I repeat unhesitatingly that the unyielding rationalist has a better faith and a more unbending optimism than any of the timid seekers after the childish comforts of a less adult age.

--Bertrand Russell

January 20, 2007

Paradoxical as it may seem...

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

--Dorothy L. Sayers

My age is 39...


My age is 39 plus tax.

--Liberace

Is not wisdom found among...

Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?

- Bible, Job 12:12

I'd like to go on being 35...


I'd like to go on being 35 for a long time.

--Margaret Thatcher

January 18, 2007

Age has its compensation...

Age has its compensation. It is less apt to be brow-beaten by discretion.

--Charlie Chaplain