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A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. --Pindar
A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks. --Mortimer Collins
Adults always ask kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for *ideas*. --Paula Poundstone
All lovely things will have an ending,
All lovely things will fade and die;
And youth, that's now so bravely spending,
Will beg a penny by and by.
--Conrad Aiken
At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all. --Elizabeth Jennings
Beautiful young people are acts of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another until he finds his own. --Logan Pearsall Smith
For age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. --John Burroughs
I am not young enough to know everything. --James Matthew Barrie
I dread no more the first white in my hair,
Or even age itself, the easy shoe,
The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair
Time, doing this to me, may alter too
My sorrow, into something I can bear.
--Edna St. Vincent Millay
I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content. --Lin Yü-tang
I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate. --Lady Nancy Astor
I won't ever grow up. My biological clock has a snooze button.
I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent. --Wendy Cope
I'm growing older but not up. --Jimmy Buffett
I've had enough of the inner child. Let's see some of the outer adult for a change. --Some comic, some TV show
If things get better with age, then I'm approaching magnificent!
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. --Abraham Sutzkever
If youth knew; if age could. --Henri Estienne
It is never too late to have a happy childhood.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old. --Marie Dressler
It takes a long time to become young. --Pablo Picasso
Maturity is knowing when to be immature. --Randall Hall
Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime. --Mark Twain
Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old! --George Meredith
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. --Francis Bacon
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going. --J. B. Priestley
Some people buy toys for children. I feel it's cheaper and more dignified to cut out the middleman and buy toys for myself.
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. --Doug Larson
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. --Muhammad Ali
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. --Wilhelm Stekel
The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy.
They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here. --Henry Vaughan
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. --Benjamin Franklin
We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves. --May L. Becker
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. --Dave Barry
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. --Robert Browning
Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young. --Samuel Ullman
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. --William Shakespeare, "Merchant Of Venice"
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. --Les Brown
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. --Woody Allen
You have the body of a 19 year old. Please return it before it gets wrinkled.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. --Bob Hope
Youth has no age. --Pablo Picasso
Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret. --Benjamin Disraeli
