Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
Aristotle
Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
Betty Friedan
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
Oscar Wilde
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Oscar Wilde
I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
Oscar Wilde
The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out. Sure, there's a lot more living to go, but there isn't much doubt that I'll always be the 'Dilbert guy.' Unless I go on a crime spree, in which case I'll be 'that stabbin' Dilbert guy.'
Scott Adams
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.
Fred Hoyle
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
Benjamin Franklin
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
Alfred North Whitehead
We grow too soon old and too late smart.
Dutch Proverb
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Cyril Connolly
To remain young while growing old is the highest blessing.
German Proverb
I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.
George F. Burns
People age even when you're not looking.
Randy K. Milholland
Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.
George F. Burns
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Henri Frederic Amiel
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
Gore Vidal
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.
Marshall Ganz
It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.
Jean Paul Richter
I grow more intense as I age.
Florida Scott Maxwell
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
Anouk Aimee
I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
Gerald Brenan
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Maurice Chevalier
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
William Feather
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
Ogden Nash
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.
Doris Lessing
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
Tryon Edwards
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Groucho Marx
Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.
Satchel Paige
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Don Marquis
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
Edith Wharton
In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made.
Kathleen Norris
The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful...
Sharon Olds
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken
The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.
Logan Pearsall Smith
If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.
Ludwig Borne
The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
Doug Larson
I might be just twenty-six, but I'm an old woman in disguise... twenty-six goin'on sixty-five.
Aretha Franklin
I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!
Leo Rosten
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.
Karl von Bonstetten
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Franklin Pierce Adams
I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.
Louise Nevelson
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Michael Pritchard
We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
W. Somerset Maugham
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
Gwendolyn Brooks
When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.
Pearl Bailey
As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.
Christina Of Sweden
Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff.
Harold Nicolson
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
Casey Stengel
A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.
Garson Kanin
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
Harold Coffin
The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.
Robinson Jeffers
I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'
Earl Warren
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
Bill Vaughn
I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.
Pablo Casals
After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.
Franco Harris
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
Randall Jarrell
Few people know how to be old.
Maggie Kuhn
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
George Santayana
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
Ira Gershwin
At age 50, every man has the face he deserves.
George Orwell
No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.
Lynn Johnston
To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Bernard M. Baruch
Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.
Lillian Carter
At 34 she is an extremely beautiful woman, lavishly endowed by nature with a few flaws in the masterpiece: She has an insipid double chin, her legs are too short and she has a slight potbelly. She has a wonderful bosom, though.
Richard Burton
A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.
Liz Carpenter
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.
Maggie Kuhn
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
Anne Bradstreet
As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.
Robert Benchley
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
Abigail Van Buren
There are only three ages for women in Hollywood - Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.
Goldie Hawn
Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own youthful feeling, your own groping thought and your own flowering perception.
Lotte Lehmann
By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
Marya Mannes
Age is the most terrible misfortune that can happen to any man; other evils will mend, this is every day getting worse.
George James
In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.
Roger Allen
As we grow old…the beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
Marilyn Monroe
Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.
Richard Steele, Sr.
After age seventy it's patch, patch, patch.
Jimmy Stewart
I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you can't recall it, forget it).
Goodman Ace
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
Brigitte Bardot
People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
Russell Baker
Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.
Ruth Gordon
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball
The trick is growing up without growing old.
Casey Stengel
The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless and prying philanthropy, which is almost omniscient, is one of the most hopeful characteristics of the time.
Mary Baker Eddy
When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
W. Somerset Maugham
When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.
W. Somerset Maugham
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
Arthur Christopher Benson
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
Pearl S. Buck
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Fay Weldon
Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
Ellen Glasgow
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.
Carolyn Wells
Age is…wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly.
Miriam Makeba
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
Marilyn Ferguson
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Agatha Christie
In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
Edith Wharton
There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.
Carol Matthau
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
George Sand
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard
Where is the path to Grown-Up Land? How do I get there? Or will I just get old, not understanding that I'm no longer young?
Tish Grier
I'm not dead. I mean, I may be getting older, but I'm not dead!
Sheryl Crow
I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I think he [Archie Bunker] is in every man my age, no matter what he does, whether he's a vice president at Chase or a cab driver.
Carroll O'connor
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Maurice Chevalier
As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.
Robert Quillen
We don't grow older, we grow riper.
Pablo Picasso
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