 | "Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place."
- Abigail Van Buren
, 1978. |
| "The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy."
- Alfred North Whitehead
. |
| "Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing."
- Aristotle
, 'Nicomachean Ethics'. |
| "Beware of the young doctor and the old barber."
- Benjamin Franklin
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| "To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."
- Bernard M. Baruch
, 1940. |
| "Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you."
- Cyril Connolly
. |
| "The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools."
- Doug Larson
. |
| "I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege'."
- Earl Warren
, Chief Justice. |
| "Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty."
- Ellen Glasgow
, The Woman Within, 1954. |
| "The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
. |