On Age

Thoughts on ‘age’ from the brightest and articulate minds.

There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.

― Milan Kundera

People tend to find books when they are ready for them.

― Neil Gaiman

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

― C.S. Lewis

I am not young enough to know everything.

― Oscar Wilde

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

― Ernest Hemingway

Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Just ’cause there’s snow on the roof doesn’t mean there’s not a fire inside.

― Bonnie Hunt

Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

― J.K. Rowling

Age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese.

― Billie Burke

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

― Mark Twain

Life is defined by time, appreciate the beauty of time;
A time to plant, a time to harvest.
A time to cry, a time to laugh.
A time to be sad, a time to be happy.
A time to be born, a time to die.

― Lailah Gifty Akita


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