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Letter "A" » Ageing
«Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.»
Author: Douglas MacArthur
(General)
| About:
Ageing,
Motivational,
Perseverance
| Keywords:
quitting, wrinkles
«Age is not different from earlier life as long as you?re sitting down.»
«I used to have a sign over my computer that read OLD DOGS CAN LEARN NEW TRICKS, but lately I sometimes ask myself how many more new tricks I want to learn. Wouldn?t it be easier just to be outdated?»
«I?m going to be eighty soon, and I guess the one thing that puzzles me most is how quick it got here.»
«At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.»
«A sign of growing old is when interviewers start asking you,?What would you do differently if you had your life to live over again?? I give some sort of answer because I don?t wish to be rude, but I don?t tell them the image that comes into my mind because they would think it vain and frivolous, and no one wants to be a subject for ridicule. I see myself as a tall, skinny Fellini, vigorously lifting weights. That?s what I would do differently. I would lift weights.»
«Don?t talk to me about Valentine?s Day. At my age an affair of the heart is a bypass!»
«At my age getting a second doctor?s opinion is kinda like switching slot machines.»
«Men become old, but they never become good»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Ageing,
Human Nature,
Mankind
| Keywords:
men, old
«Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.»
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