Age And Youth Quotes

• You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

  Bonnie Prudden

  Inspirational, Life, Time

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  How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

  Satchel Paige

  Happy Birthday, Baseball, Fun

  Quoted in Garson Kanin, It Takes a Long Time to Become Young (1978)

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Funny, Motivational

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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• Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

  Bob Hope

  Birthday, Witty, Funny Inspirational

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  Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

  Betty Friedan

  Birthday, Strength, Inspiring

  "How to live longer, better, wiser". Betty Friedan, Parade Magazine (pp. 4-6), March 20, 1994.

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  A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

  John Barrymore

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age

  Plato

  Optimism, Age, Pressure

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.211, Xist Publishing

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• Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Birthday, Art, Lost Youth

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• We are always the same age inside.

  Gertrude Stein

  Happy Birthday, Confidence, Positive Thinking

  "The American Treasury, 1455-1955". Book edited by Clifton Fadiman, p. 946, 1955.

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• Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Happy Birthday, Twilight, Opportunity

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.627, Library of America

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• Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Family, Home

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• No wise man ever wished to be younger.

  Jonathan Swift

  Birthday, Wise, Time

  Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting

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• 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.

  Samuel Ullman

  Life, Birthday, Leadership

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• 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.

  Samuel Ullman

  Birthday, Confidence, Self

  "The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood" by Jane Manner, (p. 323-24), 1934.

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• Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

  Leon Trotsky

  Inspirational, Men, Old Things

  Diary in Exile (1959) 8 May 1935

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

  Tom Wilson

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Wisdom

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  The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Growing Up

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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• The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Birthday, Wisdom

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.311, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Secret, Pleasure

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.180, Courier Corporation

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• Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

  J. K. Rowling

  Age, Potters, Youth

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  Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Family

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

  Arthur Wing Pinero

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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  You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

  George Burns

  Birthday, Optimistic, Wish

  George Burns, David Fisher (1990). “All my best friends”, Perigee

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• None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.40, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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