The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

As you get older, you have more responsibilities; you have more commitments, more events, kids, you’re married now. You still have all the things that you’ve had, plus you just keep adding.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.

When you’re 40, you can’t ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear, and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses, he will endure or be forgotten.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

I guess I don’t so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

Everybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.

I’m saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

When you are younger, you want to do everything, and you go haywire.

I’ve come to admire our military kids more than you all will know, because you guys are heroes. And the only way your parents are able to serve is because you guys hold it down, and you do it with maturity beyond your years.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years… Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Well, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don’t buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

I just don’t have time to get old!

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.