Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes

The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

It is a pledge that senility has not the last say in everything.

I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.

I've grown up, but not grown old; I hope there's a difference.

O amazement of things-even the least particle!

Live in a perpetual great astonishment.

I look with wonder at that which is before me.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

At 66 years of age, I feel about 20.

I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.

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

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

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

Wonders will never cease.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.