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Category: Youth and Age

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1. "Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier."

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Other categories: Dreams and Desires

2. "Some people have no respect for age unless it's bottled."

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Other categories: Health and Alcohol

3. "Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust."

Jean Baudrillard, "Cool Memories"

Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy

4. "It's my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late."

Betty Ford, "The Last Word"

Other categories: Family and Loneliness

5. "Good men are like wine, some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age."

Pope John XXIII

Other categories: Human -:- Good and Evil

6. "There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age."

Bill Bryson, "The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America"

Other categories: Various

7. "Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has."

Anita Brookner, "The Misalliance"

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Time and Passing

8. "Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz"

9. "I'll trade wisdom for youth any day."

Brad Pitt, Los Angeles Times; December 26, 2008

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

10. "Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old: It is the rust we value, not the gold."

Alexander Pope, "Imitations of Horace"

Other categories: Art and Culture

11. "Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art."

Eleanor Roosevelt

Other categories: Beauty and Ugliness

12. "None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."

Henry David Thoreau

13. "With the cruelty of youth I allowed myself to be irritated by traits in my father which, in other elderly men, I have since regarded as lovable foibles."

Clive Staples Lewis, "Surprised By Joy"

Other categories: Family and Loneliness

14. "The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another."

Horace, "Epistles"

Other categories: Time and Passing

15. "In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age, one becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on, one is less often delighted or surprised, but also less disappointed."

Albert Einstein, "Letter to Queen Elizabeth of Belgium"

Other categories: Time and Passing

16. "Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "The Little Prince"

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement

17. "The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children."

Mahatma Gandhi

Other categories: Love

18. "Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."

Benjamin Franklin

Other categories: Life and Death -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

19. "A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth!"

Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal), "The Charterhouse of Parma"

Other categories: Love

20. "You get old only when you start having more memories than dreams."

Agnieszka Lisak

Other categories: Dreams and Desires -:- Memory

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21. "Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature."

Albert Einstein

Other categories: Family and Loneliness

22. "Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself."

Woodrow T. Wilson

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

23. "Every man over forty is responsible for his face."

Abraham Lincoln

24. "If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel."

Will Kommen

Other categories: Various

25. "Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of."

William Golding

Other categories: Family and Loneliness

26. "What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?"

Evelyn Waugh

27. "Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."

Groucho Marx

28. "Parents teach in the toughest school in the word: The School for Making People."

Virginia Satir

Other categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Education

29. "Whom the gods love dies young."

Menander

Other categories: Life and Death

30. "Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older."

John Dos Passos , "The Ground We Stand On"

Other categories: Friendship and Hostility

31. "Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home."

Phyllis Diller

Other categories: Family and Loneliness

32. "The hardest part about being a kid is knowing you have got your whole life ahead of you."

Jane Wagner, "Edith Ann"

Other categories: Life and Death

33. "The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it."

Arthur Schopenhauer

Other categories: Life and Death

34. "There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age."

Sophia Loren

35. "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."

gen. Douglas MacArthur

Other categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Optimism and Hope

36. "As I grow older , I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me."

Sir Henry Rider Haggard

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement

37. "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

Other categories: Health and Alcohol

38. "Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else."

Ogden Nash

Other categories: Memory

39. "At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing."

Baltasar Gracian, "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"

40. "Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age."

William Feather

Other categories: Family and Loneliness

41. "Sure i'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day."

Lillian Carter

42. "A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do."

Lois Wyse, "Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother"

Other categories: Family and Loneliness

43. "Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation."

Lois Wyse, "Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother"

Other categories: Family and Loneliness

44. "Age appears to be best in four things - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

Francis Bacon

45. "The secret of a long life is knowing when it's time to go."

Michele Shocked

Other categories: Life and Death

46. "A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "Love in the Time of Cholera"

Other categories: Family and Loneliness

47. "There is no such thing as the old age of the wise."

Sophocles

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

48. "At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings."

Gérard Depardieu

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Truth and Falsity

49. "When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex."

Prue Leith

Other categories: Health and Alcohol

50. "Life begins at forty."

Walter B. Pitkin, "Life begins at forty"

Other categories: Life and Death

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