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| It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year. (Tom Lehrer) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. (Fran Lebowitz) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Should you be a teenager blessed with uncommon good looks, document this state of affairs by the taking of photographs. It is the only way anyone will ever believe you in years to come. (Fran Lebowitz) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions. (Fran Lebowitz) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit it on a little chair and say, "You'll have three score years and ten," and take a photograph every minute. "And we'll watch you and photograph you for ten years after you die, then we'll run the film." Wouldn't that be extraordinary? We'd watch this thing get bigger and bigger, and flower to become extraordinary and beautiful, then watch it crumble, decay, and rot. (Clive Barker) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Age is a tyrant, who forbids, at the penalty of life, all the pleasures of youth. (Francois La Rochefoucauld) | [▲] | [▼] |
| You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. (Bob Hope) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.) | [▲] | [▼] |
| When I grow up I want to be a little boy. (Joseph Heller) | [▲] | [▼] |
| To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us. (William Hazlitt) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I'm now at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was. (Rex Harrison) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitima (Lady Nancy Astor) | [▲] | [▼] |
| How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease. (Oliver Goldsmith) | [▲] | [▼] |
| If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. (James A. Garfield) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Adolescence: a stage between infancy and adultery. (Foolish Dictionary) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I know I'm going to get old and be one of those crazy women who sits on balconies and spits on people and screams, 'Get a haircut!' I know this, and I don't really fear it. I'd just like to move toward it with as much grace and dignity as possible. (Carrie Fisher) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. (Euripides) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. (Albert Einstein) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so. (Tyron Edwards) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold! (Julia Ripley Dorr) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Aging is bad, but consider the alternative. (Anonymous) | [▲] | [▼] |
| You are young at any age if you're planning for tomorrow. (Anonymous) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret. (Benjamin Disraeli) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know. (John Denham) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Age ... is a matter of feeling, not of years. (George Williams Curtis) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Avarice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end. (Cicero) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes. (Thomas Carlyle) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I'm at that age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill. (George Burns) | [▲] | [▼] |
| If you live to the age of a hundred, you have it made because very very few people die past the age of a hundred. (George Burns) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child. (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) | [▲] | [▼] |