"A lady of a 'certain age,' which means
George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan
"Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked."
Pearl S. Buck China, Past and Present
"And youth is cruel, and has no remorse
T.S. Eliot
"At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At 40, we don't care what they think of us. At 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all."
Ann Landers
"Happiness in old age is, more than anything else, preserving the privileges of privacy."
Harold Azine
"Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition."
François Sagan
"Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food."
Dean McLaughlin
"Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools."
George Chapman All Fools
"Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day."
Benito Mussolini
"Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it."
Gabrielle ('Coco') Chanel
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