"Age does not make us childish, as..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
More by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
More on Aging
“As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am.”
“As one grows older one must try not to work oneself to death unnecessarily. At least that's how it is with me... I can scarcely keep pace and must watch out that the creative forces do not chase me around the universe in a wallop.”
“Friends are forever Boys are whatever.”
More on Human Nature
“I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.”
“No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.”
“You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!”