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• One’s age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.

  Thomas Arnold

  Topics in Age, Funny

  Tags in Tranquil, Evening

• Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Different, Though

• Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

  Maya Lin

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Good, Teacher, Think

• Too many people grow up. That’s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don’t remember what it’s like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won’t do that.

  Walt Disney

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Growing Up, Adulthood, People, Elderly

• Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

  Washington Irving

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Elderly

• I’ll tell ‘ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people

  Bob Hope

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Ageing, Elderly

• I grow old learning something new everyday.

  Solon

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Elderly

• He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

  Joseph Addison

  Topics in Age

  Tags in One Day, Young, Elderly

• As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by “survival of the fittest.”

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Age, Art, Funny, History

  Tags in Comedian, Eggs

• The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Age, Funny

  Tags in Cruelty, School

• My idea of Hell is to be young again.

  Marge Piercy

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Hell

• What is wedlock forced but a hell, an age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss and is a pattern of celestial peace.

  William Shakespeare

  Topics in Age, Funny

  Tags in Matrimony, Hell

• While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Age And Aging

• Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility; therefore, my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but k.

  William Shakespeare

  Topics in Age, Funny, Youth

  Tags in Age And Aging

• I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

  Francois Marie Arouet

  Topics in Age, Funny

  Tags in Doctors

• We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Topics in Age, Funny

  Tags in Road, Disturbed

• It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

  Joseph Addison

  Topics in Age, Funny

  Tags in Privilege, Posterity, Rivalry, Greatness, Right

• And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.

  Terry Pratchett

  Topics in Age, Education, Funny

  Tags in People

• You, the American people, have made our passage into the global information age an era of great American renewal.

  Bill Clinton

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Information, People

• Young people must be taught, old ones be honoured.

  Topics in Age, Danish Proverbs, Youth

  Tags in Honoured, People