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648 quotesOne does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
Maturity
Gertrude Stein
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
Age and Aging
Casey Stengel
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The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
Anecdotes
Laurence Sterne
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Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag.
Golf
Adlai E. Stevenson
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Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself.
Responsibility
Mikhail Strabo
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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.
Business
Edwin H. Stuart
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I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.
Sensuality
Charles Sumner
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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
Age and Aging
Abraham Sutzkever
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Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Caution
Swedish Proverb
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We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
Kindness
Ben Sweetland
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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
Love
Jonathan Swift
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
Age and Aging
Jonathan Swift
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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
Risk
Jonathan Swift
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Observation is an old man's memory.
Memory
Jonathan Swift
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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
Heaven
Jonathan Swift
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Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
Silence
Publilius Syrus
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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
Fear
Publilius Syrus
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.
Courage
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
Age and Aging
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
Memory
Booth Tarkington
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Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.
Generals
A. J. P. Taylor
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Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
Books - Reading
Sir William Temple
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Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.
Anxiety
Lord Alfred Tennyson
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Love is the only gold.
Love
Lord Alfred Tennyson
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That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.
Conservatives
Lord Alfred Tennyson
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun