Daniel Webster Quotes

One of the advantages of having lived a long time is that you can often remember when you had it worse. I am grateful to have lived long enough to have known some of the blessings of adversity.

May you live all the days of your life.

At 91, every day is a birthday.

Age is just a number. Life and aging are the greatest gifts that we could possibly ever have.

Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

Thanks be to God we lived so long and did so much good.

But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

I urge you children to be patient with your parents. If they seem to be out of touch on such vital issues as dating, clothing styles, modern music, and use of family cars, listen to them anyway. They have the experience that you lack.

The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted..

Aging is a synonym for living.

Error is the stuff of which the web of life is woven, and he who lives longest and wisest is only able to weave out the more of it.

We do not attend to the advice of the sage and experienced because we think they are old, forgetting that they once were young and placed in the same situations as ourselves.

An old man in a house is a good sign in a house.

I associate wisdom and grace with age.

We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel.

There is something to be said for being older - and memories.

I adore my dad. He's a 78-year-old man and my inspiration.

I have always listened to elders in my life.

I think ageing is challenging, surprising, fun, and full of friendship, so that is the approach I'll take, objecting to the stigmatization of ageing in so many modern societies.

A player may have a future only if he respects the players who taught and advised him.

I remember when I was a younger cat, I always thought the veteran guys talked too much.

I'm like a 70-year-old man at heart.

Granddad taught me a long time ago, act like you've been there before.

It's always great to see grey hairs in a crowd; people who are older have been to a lot more gigs than the kids; they've seen everything, so seeing them in the crowd means we've earned their applause.

I wish I would have listened, when I was a kid, to my elders or people who had my best interests at heart, and then I wish I would have been more conscious at that age also.