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“A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.”

Age Childhood Aging Old Age Immortality Honorable Fatherhood

Author:Pindar

“Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.”

Love Age Childhood Aging Lovely Old Age Birthday Sentimental Cheerful

Author:Lydia M. Child

“Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.”

Age Games Childhood Claims Golf Privilege Golfing Funny Golfing Golf Game

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Hence the Bible has no record of his years of preparation; the record is very abrupt. Something about his childhood is said, very fragmentary. And only once is he mentioned: when he was twelve years of age and he started arguing with the priests in the temple - that's all. Then there is a gap of eighteen years... nothing is mentioned.”

Years Said Age Jesus Christ Records Childhood Jesus Christ Arguing Preparation Temples Priests Gaps Twelve Eighteen

Author:Rajneesh

“I've lived a fast-paced life, but I had the best childhood. I didn't miss out on anything by having my daughter at a young age.”

Age Young Mother Childhood Missing Daughter My Daughter Young Age Fast Paced

Author:Keisha Castle-Hughes

“Old age is but a second childhood.”

Children Age Childhood Old Age

Author:Aristophanes

“Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.”

Source: Cicero in Twenty-eight Volumes: Cato Maior de Senectute. Laelius de Amicitia. De Divinatione

“Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?”

Firsts Looks Heart Littles Doe Sometimes Eye Care Age Games Pleasure Teaching Childhood Duty Laughter Lips Stealing Enjoyment Friendly Disposition Humane Children Love Amiable

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau