"It was on the 10th day of..." - Quote by Mark Twain
It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.
More by Mark Twain
“A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”
“What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.”
“If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out; and I don't know but more so.”
More on Age
“Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was a tragedy after 40, and I disputed it. Three years ago he asked me to testify again: I counted my graves, and there was nothing for me to say. I am old; I recognize it but I don't realize it. I wonder if a person ever really ceases to feel young - I mean, for a whole day at a time.”
“Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.”
“When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund”
More on Youth
“We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.”
“The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.' Man is the animal that doesn't know what to do with itself. The mind has many possibilities, but we can live no more than one life. What are we going to do with ourselves?”
“All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.”