A. J. Liebling Quotes

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.

The good old times—all times when old are good.

When you are in the future, the past looks different.

The older they get, the better they were when they were younger.

Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.

Only to youth will spring be spring.

All change brings bad things and good things to replace the bad and good things that were before. It is natural to look back and say it was better before—but that does not make it true. Different is not worse. It is just different.

Remember when we didn't live in the future? When we were young, it was not the future yet.

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

I believe that change keeps you young.

I shall not grow conservative with age.

When you are surrounded by children, the child in you comes back.

When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same.

I mean the future has become old fashioned.

The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.

The older I get, the better I used to be.

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

Stories always seem to get better with age.

I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.