John A. Powell Quotes

Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

If she had been left alone she would have gone on, in her own way, enjoying herself thoroughly, until people found one day that she had turned imperceptibly into one of those women who have become old without ever having been middle aged: a little withered, a little acid, hard as nails, sentimentally kindhearted, and addicted to religion or small dogs.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

I said 'No, I've aged, but grown up? No'.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

I'd say that on 'Friends' my character was the guy bouncing around the room. I'm no longer that guy, necessarily, in my life. I used to be. But I'm not now.

I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

Good looks are not something you earn. But as you get older, how you look is a reflection of the life you've led.

Somehow, when you think about yourself in old age, you think you're going to be this completely different person that you don't even recognize - because you can't imagine it, you know?

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.

Maybe in my 20s I was a little more lively. But I'm done with that.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

I've aged, but grown up? No.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

I feel old only when I look at my hands or at myself in the mirror.

I look 10 years younger than I am. Unfortunately, sometimes I act like I'm 10 years old.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

It makes me look so old.

I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.

If you get serious about yourself as you get old, you are pathetic.