“A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.”
Source: The substance of man
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“Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.”
Source: Adventures of Ideas
“An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick”
Source: A Writer's Diary
“At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.”
Source: A Writer's Diary
“I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest
“Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.”
“A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.”
Source: Poetical works
Source: La vieillesse
Source: Watt
“We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.”
Source: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett
“The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.”
Source: Vivian Grey
Source: Specimens of the table talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.”
Source: Representative men. Society and solitude
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
Source: Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales
“If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.”
“Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.”
“The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.”
Source: Goethe's Letters to Zelter: With Extracts from Those of Zelter to Goethe
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.”
Source: The structure and dynamics of the psyche
“Live your life and forget your age.”
Source: The Positive Principle Today
Source: Essayes
“How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!”