The Fountain of Youth
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A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. - Gloria Pitzer
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind ... it doesn't matter. - Mark Twain
Age is no guarantee of maturity. - Lawana Blackwell
Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
- Margaret Atwood
By the time we've made it, we've had it. - Malcolm Forbes
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it,
and wiser than the one that comes after it. - George Orwell
Formula for youth: keep your enthusiasms and forget your birthdays.
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. - George Burns
I was always taught to respect my elders but it keeps getting harder to find one.
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
- Richard Feynman
It is not length of life, but depth of life. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
It wasn't until quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'
– W. Somerset Maugham
It's paradoxical that the idea of living long appeals to everyone but no one wants to get old.
- Andy Rooney
I've learned that I don't feel my age as long as I focus on my dreams instead of my regrets.
- Age 83; Live and Learn and Pass it On by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something
without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong. - Sydney Harris
Maturity is not measured by age but by the way you handle yourself in adverse situations.
- Drew Szabo
Memories fade with time. Time fades with memories.
Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. - Bob Hope
No man loves life like him that's growing old. - Sophocles
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.
Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson. You find the present tense, and the past perfect.
Nostalgia: the good old days multiplied by a bad memory.
Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did. - Lillian Hellman
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
- Theodore Roosevelt
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. - Rita Mae Brown
Seen it all, done it all, can’t remember most of it.
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age. - William Feather
Strange how much you have to know before you know how little you know.
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
- Doug Larson
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour,
whatever he does, whoever he is. - C.S. Lewis
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
- Madeleine L'Engle
The irony of life is that by the time you're old enough to know your way around,
you're not going anywhere.
The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it. - Doris Day
The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools. - Doug Larson
The young have aspirations that never come to pass;
the old have reminiscences of what never happened. - Saki
To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes. - Fritz Kunkel
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
We get old too soon and wise too late. - Benjamin Franklin
We spend half of our lives trying to figure out what to do with the time
we've rushed through life trying to save. - Ryan Macdonald
When you become senile, you won't know it. - Bill Cosby
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. - C.S. Lewis
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. - Dave Barry
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. - Herbert Henry Asquith
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