Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
Age is a tyrant, who forbids, at the penalty of life, all the pleasures of youth.
I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit it on a little chair and say, "You'll have three score years and ten," and take a photograph every minute. "And we'll watch you and photograph you for ten years after you die, then we'll run the film." Wouldn't that be extraordinary? We'd watch this thing get bigger and bigger, and flower to become extraordinary and beautiful, then watch it crumble, decay, and rot.
Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.
Should you be a teenager blessed with uncommon good looks, document this state of affairs by the taking of photographs. It is the only way anyone will ever believe you in years to come.
Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.
By the data to date, there i sonly one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.
Any person under the age of thirty, who, having any knowledge of the existing social order, is not a revolutionist, is an inferio
Age that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.
A bird in the hand is safer thantwo overhead. All courageous animals are carnivorous, and greater courage is to be expected in a people, such as the English, whose food is strong and hearty, than in the half starved commonalty of other countries.
Few ever lived to a great age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.
There has never been an intelligent person of the age of sixty who would consent to live his life over again. His or anyone else
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
Thirty-five is a very attractive age, London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.
Show respect for age. Drink good scotch for a change. The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.