Perfect Age

“The perfect age is when you are old enough to know better, young enough not to care, and wise enough to do it right.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Beautiful Works

“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.”
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Any Period

“If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of revolution, when the old and the new stand side by side and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

So Old

“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”
--Henry David Thoreau

Stay Childlike

“The problem is that we are looking for someone to grow old together, while the secret is to find someone to stay a child with.”
--Charles Bukowski

Good Old Days

“I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.”
--Andy Bernard

innovation Formula

“Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.”
--Dean Kamen

Be Old Enough

“Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
--C.S. Lewis

Not Grow Old

“If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.”
--James A. Garfield

Escape the Outdated

“The difficulty does not lie in finding new ideas, but in escaping the long outdated belief in old ones.”
--Jeffrey Fry

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Fear New Ideas

“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.”
--John Cage

Best Age

“Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”
--Francis Bacon

Age Discovered

“You discover you are old when your regrets replace your dreams.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Optimist v. Pessimist

“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.”
--Bill Vaughan

 

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A New System

“It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system. For the Initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new.”
--Niccolo Machiavelli

Change's Secret

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
--Socrates

Old and Wise

“To be old and wise, you must first be young and stupid.”
--Unknown

Unfair Nature

“Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at 70.”
--Dorothy Thompson

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Future Forward

“Nothing gets old as fast as the future.”
--Lev Grossman

Great Friends

“There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.”
--Benjamin Franklin