Boys will be boys, an’ so will lots o’ ole men.
—Kin Hubbard, 1910
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You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
—Dave Barry, 1995
The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
—Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 1979
Athletic sports, save in the case of young boys, are designed for idiots.
—George Jean Nathan, 1931
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The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence.
—Art Linkletter, 1965
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
—H. H. Asquith, 1923
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
—Jonathan Swift, 1742
Life begins at forty.
—Walter B. Pitkin, 1932
By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.
—Edward Abbey, 1990
A fool at forty is fool indeed.
—Edward Young, 1728
There is no fool like an old fool.
—English proverb
Old cow believes that she never was a calf.
—French proverb
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and
greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.
—Logan Pearsall Smith, 1931
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
—Willa Cather, 1922
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The original I have found is signed “Wallace”, but from the style and source similarity, I believe
this was just one of Kin Hubbard’s numerous pen names.
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