Famous Quotes

"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age."

Amos Bronson Alcott on Age

More quotes about Age

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

  Mark Twain on Age

• "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

  Henry Ford on Age

• "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."

  Mark Twain on Age

• "True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."

  Kurt Vonnegut on Age

• "A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

  Robert Frost on Age

More quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott

• "While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be."

• "A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."

• "Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams."

• "Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators."

• "We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes."