
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
- Topic: Age
- Location: Grand Staircase-Escalante
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Some people die at age 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.
› Benjamin Franklin
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
› Psalms 71:9
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
› Plato
Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.
› Maurice Chevalier
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
› Booth Tarkington
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
› Mark Twain
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
› Robert Frost
I remember my youth and the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth and all men.
› Joseph Conrad
Age is not better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
› Henry David Thoreau
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
› Benjamin Franklin
Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.
› Sir Richard Steele
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
› F. Scott Fitzgerald
