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Ah, nothing is too late
Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Morituri Salutamus (1875), St. 24.
- Motivation & Goals
We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experienced is a narrowing of the imagination.
David Lynch1946–2025McKenna interview (1992)
- Maturity
I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barrack ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that “old soldiers never die; they just fade away.” And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty.
Douglas MacArthur1880–1964Farewell address to Congress (19 April 1951)
- War & Peace
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
George MacDonald1824–1905Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 624
- Youth
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening,
the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husks.
George MacDonald1824–1905The Marquis of Lossie (1877)
Anyone can get old, all you have to do is live long enough.
Groucho Marx1890–1977
Although it is generally known, I think it’s about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.
Groucho Marx1890–1977From his autobiography Groucho and Me (1959)
- Comedy
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965The Summing Up (1938), p. 290
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded.
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965Of Human Bondage (1915), Chapter XXIXIn context
- Happiness
- Youth
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
André Maurois1885–1967The Art of Growing Old
The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.
MMMignon McLaughlin1913–1983The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981)
- Happiness
- Youth
Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.
MMMignon McLaughlin1913–1983The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981), Women & men
- Men
- Women
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter XXIXIn context
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956“Advice to Young Men” in Prejudices: Third Series (1922).
- Wisdom
I cannot say what loves have come and gone,
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.
Edna St. Vincent Millay1892–1950What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why (1920)In context
- Love