You'd scarce expect one of my age
To speak in public on the stage,
And if I chance to fall below
Demosthenes or Cicero,
Don't view me with a critic's eye,
But pass my imperfections by.
Large streams from little fountains flow,
Tall oaks from little acorns grow. - David Everett
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. - Virginia Woolf
Youth comes but once in a lifetime. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it. - Rudyard Kipling
Keep true to the dream of thy youth. - Friedrich Von Schiller
It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else. - Albert Schweitezer
A man over nintey is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty. - Georges Clemenceau
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. - T. S. Eliot
From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash. - Sophie Tucker
When you turn thirty, a whole new thing happens: you see yourself acting like you parents. - Blair Sabol
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished a how much he had learned in seven years. - Mark Twain
The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love. - Jean Renoir
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty, but it's up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. - Coco Chanel
How far that little candle throws his beams! - William Shakespeare
If you want to be happy, be. - Henry David Thorreau
The secret anniversaries of the heart. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Never look a gift horse in the moouth! - Saint Jerome
God loveth a cheerful giver. - Corinthians
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. - Pierre Cornielle
