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You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

— Francis Bacon

I think I'm rather young and sprightly, but then you see pictures of yourself and think, 'Who is that old man?' and I realise I'm not as young as I thought I was.

— Hugh Grant

Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning about getting older, when there's nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find it quite funny. I look at that number, 60, and I think, 'Really? Me?'

— Twiggy

As long as you can laugh, you are not old.

— Sofia Vassilieva

I'm wondering when you hit the age where people say, 'Oh, OK, he's not so young.'

— Anthony Marra

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

— George Chapman

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

— Muhammad Ali

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

— Colleen McCullough

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

— Laurence Housman

✗Opposing Perspectives

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

— Tryon Edwards