Youth is wasted on the young.

Youth is wasted on the young.

In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.

In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.

If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better care of myself. -Adolph Zukor.

If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better care of myself. -Adolph Zukor.

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score read more

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

Middle age . . . when a man is at the peak of his yearning power. -Wall Stress Journal.

Middle age . . . when a man is at the peak of his yearning power. -Wall Stress Journal.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from read more

To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set read more

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.