Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. Bob Hope
Age is a tyrant, who forbids, at the penalty of life, all the pleasures of youth. François La Rochefoucauld
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. Clive Barker
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. Fran Lebowitz
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. Fran Lebowitz
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. Fran Lebowitz
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year. Tom Lehrer
The four stages of man are: Infancy, Childhood, Adolescence and obsolescence. Art Linkletter
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. Lazarus Long
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. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. Groucho Marx
A man's only as old as the woman he feels. Groucho Marx
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdo H.L. Mencken