The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.                                  -Alfred North Whitehead

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.  -Aristotle

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. -Benjamin Franklin

To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. -Bernard M. Baruch

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. - Cyril Connolly

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become oldfools.                  -Doug Larson

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'  -Earl Warren

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.      -Ellen Glasgow

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. -Frank Lloyd Wright

Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.           -George Burns

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides. -George Sand

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. -George Santayana

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. -Gloria Pitzer

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

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one. -Homer

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after

-Homer      

To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.                              -Karl von Bonstetten

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

I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.                         

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. -Lucille Ball

You're never too old to become younger.

-Mae West    

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest. -Marilyn Ferguson

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful. -Marshall Ganz

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives. -Maurice Chevalier

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

I am not young enough to know everything

-Oscar Wilde 

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. -Oscar Wilde