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I used to be able to summon up scenes at will, but now aging memory is so busy weeding its own garden that, promiscuously, it pulls up roses as well as crabgrass.
Gore Vidal1925–2012Palimpsest: A Memoir (1995), Ch. 12: The Guest of the Blue Nuns, p. 162
Blessings on your young courage, boy; that’s the way to the stars.
Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book IX, Line 641
- Courage
- Youth
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Cat’s Cradle (1963), Chapter 88
- Laughter
- Maturity
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
Evelyn Waugh1903–1966A Little Learning (1964), First lines
- Writing
You’re never too old to become younger.
Mae West1893–1980
Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself keeps you feeling young.
Betty White1922–2021If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won’t) (2011)
I have no regrets at all. None. I consider myself to be the luckiest old broad on two feet.
Betty White1922–2021If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won’t) (2011)
- Luck
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
- Youth
Those whom the gods love grow young.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don’t know anything at all.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), Act II
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1899)In context
- Women
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900A Woman of No Importance (1893)
- America
- Youth
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter XIXIn context
- Comedy
- Youth
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter XIXIn context
- Youth
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), Third Act, spoken by Lady BracknellIn context
- Women