Edvard Grieg Quotes

I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age

Kate Winslet also happens to be one of my close friends who I goof off with like crazy. It was a reunion of two people who, I guess, are a little bit older, a tiny bit wiser but ultimately were the same as they were when they were 21.

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

My sense of loneliness was not particularly great until I reached sixty. From that time on, I would have given an ex-king's ransom if I had been able, in my youth to seduce a lady into thinking of me as a handyman and provider around the house.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

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.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age.

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.

The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.

The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'.

I was 22, and 40 was old. To be 40 again!