Malcolm Boyd Quotes

There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.

The older you get, the better you get to know you body.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

You know, you get to a certain age, 45, 50, I don't know when it happens, I said, 'Jesus, all I got is a certain amount of time. Maybe I should think about using it a little better.'

I was watching 'Up In The Air' and I thought, 'Jesus, who's the old gray-haired guy?' And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it's starting to show.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

As time has gone on, I've gotten bigger and bigger. My body composition has changed.

At 33 years old, I think any player my age should take time to take inventory and see what their situation is and see how the body feels.

It makes me think—what am I going to be like when I'm 65?

Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless center.

Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.

As you get older, you just lose that confidence and narcissism you have in your twenties. You realize you have less time on the planet, and you become cynical and less confident.

We all grow older and we all have to live with ourselves.

I was looking in the mirror the other day and I realized I haven't changed much since I was in my twenties. The only difference is I look a whole lot older now.

You are more thoughtful because you don't act as quickly anymore. When I turned 70 it was the first time I felt young for my age. Fifty dropped on me like a ton of bricks - there is something about that number - but when 70 came along I felt good about it.

I've got an age that I do think of myself.

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

The only real change in life comes with the consciousness of old age.

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.