Unattributed on age

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

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

Jack Benny1894–1974Often credited to Mark Twain

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

Mark Twain1835–1910“Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington”, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (1867), ed. John Paul

• Youth

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art.

Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962

• Beauty