Young Age Quotes

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

Chili Davis

Love, Happy Birthday, Happiness

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It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.

Randy Newman

Age, Rich, Young

"'I couldn't have handled success'". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2008.

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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Arthur Wing Pinero

Inspirational, Life, Positive

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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Oscar Wilde

Funny, Happy Birthday, Growing Up

"Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Age, Aging, Old People

"A sad affair" by Alberto Manguel, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2005.

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Germaine Greer

Life, Happy Birthday, Happiness

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Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Coco Chanel

Funny, Birthday, Beauty

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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Blood, Hygiene, People

Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"

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When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

Mark Twain

Birthday, Growing Up, Memories

"Mark Twain's Own Autobiography," North American Review, 1 Mar. 1907

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One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.

Pablo Picasso

Birthday, Fortune Cookie, Age

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Sophia Loren

Life, Birthday, Death

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear.

Paul H. Dunn

Self Confidence, Wrinkles, Inspirational Birthday

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Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Jack Benny

Funny, Happy Birthday, Elderly

New York Times, 1974.

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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Marie Dressler

Birthday, Wisdom, Age

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Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Betty Friedan

Birthday, Strength, Inspiring

"How to live longer, better, wiser". Betty Friedan, Parade Magazine (pp. 4-6), March 20, 1994.

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Andrew Carnegie

Inspirational, Inspiring, Character

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It was nice to wear a suit at a young age, it's different from a school uniform.

Zelo

Nice, School, Age

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Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

Bill Gates

Reality, Age, World

"Life lessons: From one Gates to another" by Marco R. Della Cava, abcnews.go.com.

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Ashley Montagu

Motivational, Death, Kids

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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Birthday, Time, Years

Letter to Julia Ward Howe on her 70th birthday, 27 May (1889)

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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

George Burns

Birthday, Optimistic, Wish

George Burns, David Fisher (1990). “All my best friends”, Perigee

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Good Morning, Passion, Shadow

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You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

Samuel Ullman

Birthday, Confidence, Self

"The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood" by Jane Manner, (p. 323-24), 1934.

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It takes a long time to become young.

Pablo Picasso

Birthday, Wise, Time

Jean Louis Ferrier, Pablo Picasso (1996). “Picasso”, Vilo International

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