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648 quotesI'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
Age and Aging
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
Ideas
George Eliot
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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
Youth
T. S. Eliot
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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Fools and Foolishness
Havelock Ellis
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'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.
God
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All diseases run into one. Old age.
Disease
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
Heart
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.
Gratitude
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Friends and Friendship
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Never read any book that is not a year old.
Books - Reading
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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New arts destroy the old.
Arts and Artists
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.
Possibilities
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
Poetry and Poets
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.
Sympathy
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
Age and Aging
Sigmund Z. Engel
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A young man idle, an old man needy.
Laziness
English Proverb
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
Children
English Proverb
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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
Age and Aging
English Proverb
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You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.
Parents and Parenting
English Proverb
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Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
Genius
Desiderius Erasmus
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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.
Ideas
Morris L. Ernst
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I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.
Murder
Euripides
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The bold are helpless without cleverness.
Risk
Euripides
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There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
Enemies
Euripides
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun