John Phillips Marquand Quotes

If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

I'm moving into that eldership age, you know? I'm at the 'wise woman' age where it's not about learning, but utilizing the information that I have in a way that serves other people. That's a high calling and it's a great responsibility.

Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.

That's the privilege of old age: You don't have to remember.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

I don't know whether your heart ever necessarily changes, but time changes the way that you perceive the world. And you just hope it gives you more empathy and all those other things.

With age comes a greater understanding and a greater worldview.

Aging is interesting, you know? I really love it.

Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

I quite like being old.

A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

Old people are often impatient, but for what?

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.