Thought for Today

"One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful."

~~~~~ Thomas Arnold

Thought for Today

"You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up."

~~~~~ William Dean Howells

Thought for Today

"One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful."

~~~~~ Thomas Arnold

Thought for Today

"Age affects how people experience time."

~~~~~ Edward T. Hall

Thought for Today

"You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up."

~~~~~ William Dean Howells

Thought for Today

"The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling."

~~~~~ Petrarch

Thought for Today

"He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young."

~~~~~ Joseph Addison

Thought for Today

"The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young."

~~~~~ Willa Cather

Thought for Today

"When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see."

~~~~~ Chinua Achebe

Thought for Today

"One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful."

~~~~~ Thomas Arnold

Thought for Today

"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

~~~~~ Eric Hoffer

Thought for Today

"You can tell by looking at me that I've got more miles behind me than I've got in front of me. When you reach that point, if you've got some good years left, you want to make sure that you use them wisely."

~~~~~ Tom Osborne

Thought for Today

"Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it – and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement."

~~~~~ Stephen Leacock

Thought for Today

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."

~~~~~ George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

Thought for Today

"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."

~~~~~ H. L. Mencken

Thought for Today

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable regardless of physical capacity."

~~~~~ Harvey Ullman

Thought for Today

"The arrogance of the young is a direct result of not having known enough consequences. The turkey that every day greedily approaches the farmer who tosses him grain is not wrong. It is just that no one ever told him about Thanksgiving."

~~~~~ Harry Golden (1902-1981), THE RIGHT TIME : An Autobiography of Harry Golden, 1969

Thought for Today

"The moral progress of mankind is due to the aged. The old grow wiser and better."

~~~~~ Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)