"Maybe in fairytales you're only as old as you feel, but here in L. A. you're every second as old as your pores."

Aging, Reality, Appearance, Time

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"Maybe in fairytales you're only as old as you feel, but here in L. A. you're every second as old as your pores."

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"When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!"

Stephen Richards, British Author

Aging, Age, Skins, Shedding, Growth

"When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're fucking lost."

Stephen King, American Author

Aging, Truth, Power, Regret, Today

"Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good."

Jim Butcher, American Author

Aging, Time, Humor, Reflection

"When men age they're called sophisticated. When women age they ain't called at all."

Lois Greiman, American Author

Aging, Gender, Society, Inequality

"Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure if one knows how to use it. Fruits are most welcome when almost over; youth is most charming at its close; the last drink delights the toper, the glass which souses him and puts the finishing touch on his drunkenness. Each pleasure reserves to the end the greatest delights which it contains. Life is most delightful when it is on the downward slope, but has not yet reached the abrupt decline."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Aging, Wisdom, Joy, Life

"Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Aging, Dignity, Humility, Effort

"I'm too old to know everything."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Aging, Age, Wisdom, Knowledge, Irony

"I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Aging, Wisdom, Age, Reflection, Talking

"Living this long's not as wonderful as people think. I mean, you get the same amount of youth as everyone else, but a great big extra helping of being very old and deaf and creaky."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Aging, Truth, Regret, Happiness, Wisdom

"If you think that I am going to bother myself again before I die about social improvement or read any of those stinking upward and onwarders - you err - I mean to have some good out of being old."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Aging, Life, Choice, Freedom, Rebellion

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"It is far better to know the painful truth than to live with a kindly falsehood."

Honesty

"Maybe knowledge is power, but it ain't nearly as as satisfying as punching some smart ass in the chops."

Irony

"When men age they're called sophisticated. When women age they ain't called at all."

Aging

"Jealousy. It's a terrible thing. Unless it's someone else's."

Envy

"Just when you think you have life by the tail, it's likely to whip around and take a hunk outta your balls."

Chaos

"In my experience, "what the hell" is generally the most interesting decision."

Risk

"Opportunity may only knock once, but temptation'll knock down the damn door and drag you out by the hair."

Temptation

"A person without regrets is called a corpse."

Mortality

"Some people are street-smart, some people are book-smart, but most people are just dumber than dirt."

Intelligence

"You guys gotta get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father."

Parenting