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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.
Sep 10, 2025
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full sport, age's breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.
We are always the same age inside.
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.