I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.
William Butler YeatsRead
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I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.
I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
May you live all the days of your life.
grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.
Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.
Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.
In a dream you are never eighty.
They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
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