Famous Quotes

"At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic."

Naguib Mahfouz on Age

More quotes about Age

• "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

  Mark Twain on Age

• "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

  Henry Ford on Age

• "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."

  Mark Twain on Age

• "True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."

  Kurt Vonnegut on Age

• "A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

  Robert Frost on Age

More quotes by Naguib Mahfouz

• "We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were."

• "As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak."

• "I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things."

• "God did not intend religion to be an exercise club."

• "God did not intend religion to be an exercise club."