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Kindness and intelligence are the preoccupations of age. Being cruel and thoughtless is far more fascinating when you're twenty.

To a kid, time always drags. Suddenly you're fifty. All that's left of your childhood... fits in a rusty little box, a little rusty box.

Dominique Bretodeau

I'm not 22. I'm 25... and 13 months.

“I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

— Do you think I'm too old for you?
— No, I collect antiques.

Autumn in New York

Charlotte Fielding

The best way to live a full life is to be a child, no matter what your age.

Episode 6

Now, you went to four years of college and four years of medical school, so I can safely presume that you are at least eight.

For love all ages are submissive.

Alexander Pushkin

Your impression of people is renewed every day. As you spend time with them and grow with them, you come to understand more.

Shizuka Hiratsuka

— Charlie, I can't marry you.
— I can't think of any reason why not.
— Well, I'm only 16.
— Yeah, well, you know, you get older. Why else?

Charlie Chaplin

Marriage Of Women

— You're getting slow in your old age, Alfred.
— It comes to us all, Master Wayne. Even you've got too old to die young, though not for lack of trying.

Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice

Alfred Pennyworth

Bruce Wayne (Batman)

“I used to think until you’re eighteen nothing matters,” said Mary.
“That’s right,” Abe agreed. “And afterward it’s the same way.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tender is the Night

— Age is no guarantee of efficiency.
— And youth is no guarantee of innovation.

There’s a saying: You know you’ve hit middle age when your memories become more important to you than your dreams.

Desperate Housewives

When you’re ten, they call you a prodigy. When you’re fifteen, they call you a genius. Once you hit twenty, you’re just an ordinary person.

You remember that? And that time you told me that money wasn't real? Well, old man... I'm 42 years old... and I finally realize what you were trying to tell me... so many years ago. I finally understand.

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