Young Age Quotes

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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Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Age, Aging, Old People

"A sad affair" by Alberto Manguel, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2005.

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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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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

Chili Davis

Love, Happy Birthday, Happiness

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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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Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Jack Benny

Funny, Happy Birthday, Elderly

New York Times, 1974.

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Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Franklin P. Adams

Birthday, Golf, Age

Nods and Becks (1944)

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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.

Sophia Loren

Life, Birthday, Death

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

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Andrew Carnegie

Inspirational, Inspiring, Character

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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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The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Ashley Montagu

Motivational, Death, Kids

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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Birthday, Time, Years

Letter to Julia Ward Howe on her 70th birthday, 27 May (1889)

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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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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Good Morning, Passion, Shadow

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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Marie Dressler

Birthday, Wisdom, Age

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It takes a long time to become young.

Pablo Picasso

Birthday, Wise, Time

Jean Louis Ferrier, Pablo Picasso (1996). “Picasso”, Vilo International

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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Lucille Ball

Happy Birthday, Beauty, Funny Birthday

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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.

Henry Ford

Inspirational, Encouraging, Education

"Moving Forward".

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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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You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear.

Paul H. Dunn

Self Confidence, Wrinkles, Inspirational Birthday

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Theodore Roosevelt

Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Congratulations

Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.

Dale Carnegie

Men, People, Actions Speak Louder Than Words

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The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

Oscar Wilde

Time, Humor, Tragedy

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Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Funny, Humor, Years

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

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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Andre Maurois

Birthday, Time, Hunting

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