Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Time did not compose her.

The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

One age is like another for the soul.

Some grow young, some grow cold...

When you get old, everything changes - your body changes, your family changes. You can't do what you've always done, anymore. And, either you can complain about things changing - or you can be content. Instead of complaining, you can say: "Oh, yesss! Look at all this change!" You can welcome it.

The beauty of personal authenticity can compensate for the lost beauty of our youth.

The most intriguing thing about the present moment is that it never grows old.

The Good Lord Bird don't run in a flock. He Flies alone. You know why? He's searching. Looking for the right tree. And when he sees that tree, that dead tree that's taking all the nutrition and good things from the forest floor. He goes out and he gnaws at it, and he gnaws at it till the thing gets tired and it falls down. And the dirt from it raises other trees. It gives them good things to eat. It makes 'em strong. Gives 'em life. And the circle goes 'round.

If you can't change your surroundings, change your hair color.

May you stay Forever Young

Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age, no fear to die.

Well, I was lost but now I live here! I have severely improved my predicament!

Honey! Bring down a copy of my will - and an eraser!

Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.

Sex has been around for a long time. You may not believe this, but it was around before I was.

We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it's so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.

You might not have a car or a big gold chain, stay true to yourself and things will change

The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to hold their own values above the conventional wisdom.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

It is not easy for a man to be as great as a mountain or a forest. But that is why the creator gave them to us as teachers. Now that I am old I Iook once more toward them for lessons, instead of trying to understand the ways of men. They tell me to be patient. They tell me I cannot change what is, I can only hope to change what will become. Let the grasses grow over our scars, they say, and let flowers bloom over our wounds.

It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and waiting to pounce on it, and you remember how they changed as they grew older and the joy of questioning everything slowly became transformed into the pain of questioning everything, like a star consuming its own core.

I should be a postage stamp. That’s the only way I’ll ever get licked!

It is more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will change as the world around you changes.