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The magical story is not a microscope but a mirror, not a drop of water but a well. It is not simply one thing or two, but a multitude. It is at once both lucid and opaque, it accepts both dark and light, speaks to youth and old age.
Sep 30, 2025
It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.
Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.
Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
It takes a long time to become young.
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little.
What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
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.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
All diseases run into one, old age.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.