#old

Every old poem is sacred. ↗

— Horace

#old #poem #sacred

All truth is not to be told at all times. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#told #truth #truth is

The older you get, the more you learn. ↗

— Martina Hingis

#learn #more #older #you

Nobody knows what's going on to happen to anybody beside the forlorn rags of growing old ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#age

Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#holden-caulfield #stasis #change

You can't teach calculus to a chimpanzee. So just share your banana. ↗

— John Rachel

#calculus #chimpanzee #education #golden-rule #lyme-disease

It’s [old age] not a surprise, we knew it was coming – make the most of it. So you may not be as fast on your feet, and the image in your mirror may be a little disappointing, but if you are still functioning and not in pain, gratitude should be the name of the game. ↗

— Betty White

#age

I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new. ↗

— Rick Allen

#brand #brand new #character #i #new

Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age. ↗

— Bjork

#feminist #i #maybe #old #old age

Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake. ↗

— Bjork

#i #like #me #more #music