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Category: Youth and Age

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1. "Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is."

Kenny Rogers

2. "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

Clarence Irving Lewis

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

3. "To grow you need to understand that the most important word in the world is not the word "me"."

Kazimierz Matan

Quotations about: Egoism -:- Human

4. "Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional."

Anon.

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

Anon.

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

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

Anon.

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

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

Jean Baudrillard, "Cool Memories"

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

8. "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"

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

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

Pope John XXIII

Quotations about: Human -:- Good and Evil

10. "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"

Quotations about: Various

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

Anita Brookner, "The Misalliance"

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Time and Passing

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

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

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

Brad Pitt, Los Angeles Times; December 26, 2008

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

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

Alexander Pope, "Imitations of Horace"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

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

Henry David Thoreau

17. "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"

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

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

Horace, "Epistles"

Quotations about: Time and Passing

19. "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"

Quotations about: Time and Passing

20. "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"

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotations about: Love

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

Benjamin Franklin

Quotations about: Life and Death -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

23. "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"

Quotations about: Love

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

Agnieszka Lisak

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires -:- Memory

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

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

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

Woodrow T. Wilson

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Will Kommen

Quotations about: Various

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

William Golding

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

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

Evelyn Waugh

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

Groucho Marx

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

Virginia Satir

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness -:- Education

33. "Whom the gods love dies young."

Menander

Quotations about: Life and Death

34. "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"

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

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

Phyllis Diller

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

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

Jane Wagner, "Edith Ann"

Quotations about: Life and Death

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

Quotations about: Life and Death

38. "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

39. "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

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear -:- Optimism and Hope

40. "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

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

41. "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

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

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

Ogden Nash

Quotations about: Memory

43. "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"

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

William Feather

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

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

Lillian Carter

46. "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"

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

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

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

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

48. "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

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

Michele Shocked

Quotations about: Life and Death

50. "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"

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

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