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I suppose more than anything else I’d like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso. They know that life is not just a popularity contest.
Sean Connery1930–2020Interview in the Saturday Evening Post (6 June 1964).
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Victory: An Island Tale, part IV, Ch. 14
Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
Bill Cosbyborn 1937
When you become senile, you won’t know it.
Bill Cosbyborn 1937
He had been to touch the great death, and found that, after all, it was but the great death. He was a man.
Stephen Crane1871–1900The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Chapter XXIVIn context
- Life & Death
- Maturity
When irony first makes itself known in a young man’s life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he has met with a powerful thing which he does not know how to handle.
Robertson Davies1913–1995The Cunning Man (1994), Part 2, section 6.
- Youth
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry1900–1944Le Petit Prince (1943)
- Children
- Maturity
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus460–360 BCFreeman (1948), p. 152
- Maturity
We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
Emily Dickinson1830–1886Letter to Louise Norcross (late 1872); Letters (1958) p. 499, no. 379
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
Emily Dickinson1830–1886
We must be very careful when we give advice to younger people: sometimes they follow it!
EDEdsger W. Dijkstra1930–2002The Humble Programmer (1972)
- Advice
- Youth
To the youngsters of today, I say believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity.
Walt Disney1901–1966The Quotable Walt Disney (2001)
- Hope
- Youth
To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future.
Walt Disney1901–1966Speech on the opening day of Disneyland (17 July 1955)
- Youth
The disappointment of manhood succeeds to the delusion of youth: let us hope that the heritage of old age is not despair.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Vivian Grey (1826), Book VIII, Chapter 4
- Youth
No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
John Donne1572–1631Elegies, No. 9, The Autumnal, line 1
- Beauty