Category Archives: Age

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. Stanislaw Lec

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one’s teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement. Dwight L. Moody

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later. Mignon McLaughlin

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. Andre Maurois

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost. Margaret Mead

Old age is fifteen years older than I am. Oliver Wendell Holmes

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength. Betty Friedan

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. Doris Lessing

The trick is growing up without growing old. Casey Stengel

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. Emily Dickinson

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