Rutherford B. Hayes Quotes

I am an aging Girl Scout.

A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation.

Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

While all old people have been young, no young people have been old, and this troubling fact engenders the frustration of all parents and elders, which is that while you can describe your experience, you cannot confer it.

The only thing that makes me feel old is when I can see your ankles and you have on pants.

I'm not the spring chicken anymore.

Do we all become garrulous and confidential as we approach the gates of old age? Is it that we instinctively feel, and cannot help asserting, our one advantage over the younger generation, which has so many over us? - the one advantage of time!

I quite like being old.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

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.

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

I feel like I'm 1,000. I don't feel I'm young enough a lot of the time.

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.

Few people know how to be old.

Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.