Pastoral Resources

Around age 40 I put on twenty pounds. I had always had a perfect metabolism. But, my metabolism betrayed me as it does most people, except a very rare few who will always be thin.

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

No lie ever reaches old age.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent.

I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.

Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.

It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.

In my day, at 12 years old, which was 38 years ago, we worked out in summer months for two and a half hours. Today someone in that age group might work out for four hours, two hours in the morning and two at night.

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

I also find it interesting that a lot of people in their 30s are not married and don't have kids. There are a lot of people in this age bracket that are out there dating and trying to find love. And I never thought that at my age I would be.

I shall not grow conservative with age.

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.

I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.