Age

My son, we ought to lay up a stock of absurd enthusiasms in our youth, or else we shall reach the end of our journey with an empty heart, for we lose a great many on our way. – Victor Cherbuliez, Samuel Brohl and Partner, 1877, translated from French (trans

How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps! – Mark Twain, letter to William Dean Howells, 1887 August 22nd

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. – Doug Larson

The excesses of our youth, are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date. – C.C. Colton, Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words; Addressed to Those Who Think,

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

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. – Douglas MacArthur

In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long. – Nikita Ivanovich Panin

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone. – Jim Fiebig

The years teach much which the days never knew. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been. – Mark Twain, Following the Equator

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward. – John Mortimer

Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!…. his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes. – Charles Dickens

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. – Author Unknown

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

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. – Muriel Spark

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but my faculties are decaying, now, & soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the latter. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it. – Mark Twain [Also, “When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush to the net. – Franklin Adams

Everyone is the age of their heart. – Guatemalan Proverb

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age â€” I missed it coming and going. – J.B. Priestly

Age is a high price to pay for maturity. – Tom Stoppard