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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
John Maynard Keynes1883–1946“Clissold” (1927); appeared in the Nation and Athenaeum (1927)
- Money
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
Søren Kierkegaard1813–1855Either/Or (1843), Vol. I, Diapsalmata (tr. David F. and Lillian Marvin Swenson)
- Youth
A man’s personality is matured only when he appropriates the truth, whether it is spoken by Balaam’s ass or a sniggering wag or an apostle or an angel.
Søren Kierkegaard1813–1855Journals IV A 87 (1843)
- Maturity
- Truth & Lies
If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.
Stephen Kingborn 1947Christine (1983), Pt. 1, Ch. 5
- Life & Death
- Maturity
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
DLDoug Larson1926–2017
My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out.
Timothy Leary1920–1996The Politics of Ecstasy (1968)
- Advice
- Youth
Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
Fran Lebowitzborn 1950Social Studies (1981), “Tips for Teens”.
- Youth
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Doris Lessing1919–2013The Sunday Times (London, 10 May 1992)
- Change
Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
Critics who treat ‘adult’ as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963“On Three Ways of Writing for Children” (1952); in Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (1967), p. 25
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950), Dedication: “To Lucy Barfield”
- Reading
It is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Silver Chair (1953), Ch. 16: The Healing of Harms
- Children
- Maturity
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963“On Three Ways of Writing for Children” (1952); in Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (1967), p. 25
- Maturity
The sooner you treat him as a man, the sooner he will begin to be one.
John Locke1632–1704Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693), Sec. 95
- Children
- Maturity
A boy’s will is the wind’s will,
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882My Lost Youth, refrain (1858), quoting Olaus Sirma
- Youth