James Thurber on Age
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
- James Thurber
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Bill Vaughn on Age
Sunday, July 13th, 2008Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
- Bill Vaughn
Francis Bacon on Age
Saturday, July 12th, 2008I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
- Francis Bacon
Marcus Tullius Cicero on Age
Saturday, July 12th, 2008As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
George Bernard Shaw on Age
Thursday, July 10th, 2008Youth is wasted on the young.
- George Bernard Shaw
Doris Lessing on Age
Thursday, July 10th, 2008The 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.
- Doris Lessing
Eleanor Roosevelt on Age
Saturday, July 5th, 2008Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Bill Vaughn on Age
Monday, June 30th, 2008People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.
- Bill Vaughn
John Glenn on Age
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008There is still no cure for the common birthday.
- John Glenn
Bill Vaughn on Age
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
- Bill Vaughn
