George Augustus Henry Sala Quotes

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.

I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man who is 'extraordinary for his age'; the extraordinariness lies in their behaving like human beings when they are either not yet or no longer men.

Maturity gives us jealous eyes. We look with jealousy on the younger woman because she doesn't know as much now as we do, and, oh, what we could do with our wisdom and her face.

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

I am a child who is getting on.

The beauty of personal authenticity can compensate for the lost beauty of our youth.

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

My career is going better now than when I was younger. Now I get the part. Back then, I'd get the girl.

Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

It looks like I'm going to be 40 and life begins at 40 -​ so they promise. And I believe it, too.

Holly winked. 'Do I look like a fly boy to you, Fowl?' Artemis had to admit that she didn't. Captain Short was extremely pretty in a dangerous sort of way. Black-widow pretty. Artemis was expecting puberty to hit in approximately eight months, and he suspected that at that point he would look at Holly in a different light. It was probably just as well that she was eighty years old.

Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest.

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

You know, you want to be outrageous when you're young, so all the young people say, "Oooh . . ." Now my tactics are different.

A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.