“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”
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“He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.”
“Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.”
“Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”
“I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.”
“It takes a long time to become young.”
“The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.”
“A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.”
“The golden age is before us, not behind us.”
“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
“Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.”
“It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.”
“Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.”
“Old age is just a record of one's whole life.”
“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”
“The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.”
“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.”
“Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.”
“He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.”
“Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.”
“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”
“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.”
“Advice 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.”
“As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.”