Mark Twain Quotes

The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

I hate getting old, but I'm sticking with it!

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age.

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.

I do not want to be young again.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

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

If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.