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

"I am not young enough to know everything."
— Oscar Wilde

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been."
— Mark Twain

"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
— H.L. Mencken

"One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything."
— Oscar Wilde

"Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson (Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems (Signet Classics))

"By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember"
— Chuck Palahniuk (Diary)

"I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. "
— Virginia Woolf

""When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick."
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— George Burns

"Just remember, when you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.
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— Charles Schultz

"His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless."
— Ernest Hemingway

"By the time you read this you'll be older than you remember"
— Chuck Palahniuk (Choke)

"Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The oldest fiddle plays the sweetest tune."
— Irish Proverb

"Just say, 'I'm old and I'll drive wherever the hell I want. That building wasn't there when I started. I fought in a WAR!'"
— Tommy Johnagin

"You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories."
— Garrison Keillor

"Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
—chapter 1, "Economy""
— Henry David Thoreau (Walden and Civil Disobedience (150th Anniversary))

"I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (Emerson's Prose and Poetry (Norton Critical Editions))

"These fragments I have shored against my ruins"
— T.S. Eliot (The Waste Land and Other Poems)