Sherwin B. Nuland Quotes

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.

I grow old learning something new every day.

Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

The old age of lower mammals presents characters similar to those found in man.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.

after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.

Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

Aging and its evidence remain lifes most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.

Hee that would bee well old, must bee old betimes.

I'm at the age where I want two girls. In case I fall asleep they will have someone to talk to.

Age is information failure. The body loses fluency.

My health is good; it's my age that's bad.

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.

It's this thing that's going on all the time - aging. Paul Auster quotes the poet George Opren on growing old: "What a strange thing to happen to a little boy." Which I think is so profound.

i dunno," i said, "but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.