„We of the long tails! We of the presentient whiskers! We of the perpetually growing teeth! We, the serried footnotes to man, his proliferating commentary. We, indestructible!“

„[Footnote:] We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.“

—  Will Cuppy American writer 1884 - 1949

The Common Viper
How to Become Extinct (1941)

„We don't grow older we grow riper.“

—  Pablo Picasso Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer 1881 - 1973

„If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.“

—  Anatole France French writer 1844 - 1924

„If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.“

—  Gail Sheehy writer, biographer 1937

„We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.“

—  Benjamin Franklin American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, a… 1706 - 1790

This is an anonymous modern quip which is a variant of a statement by G. Stanley Hall, in Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion and Education (1904):
: Men grow old because they stop playing, and not conversely.
Misattributed

„We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.“

—  Philip Yancey, kniha What's So Amazing About Grace?

Zdroj: What's So Amazing About Grace?

„This is a fierce bad rabbit;
look at his savage whiskers,
and his claws and his turned-up tail.“

—  Beatrix Potter English children's writer and illustrator 1866 - 1943

„It is with equal regret, my dear sirs, that I part with you. Because I feel a presentiment that we part to meet no more.“

—  Johann de Kalb American general 1721 - 1780

In August 1780, as quoted in "Death of Baron De Kalb" https://books.google.com/books?id=k2QAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA234&lpg=PA234&dq=%22I+thank+you+sir+for+your+generous+sympathy,+but+I+die+the+death+I+always+prayed+for:+the+death+of+a+soldier+fighting+for+the+rights+of+man%22&source=bl&ots=-93hJzoCYU&sig=tAag8ObQI-ZjiII56viczov02wM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VlYVVcuJI4KmNsazgYgL&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22I%20thank%20you%20sir%20for%20your%20generous%20sympathy%2C%20but%20I%20die%20the%20death%20I%20always%20prayed%20for%3A%20the%20death%20of%20a%20soldier%20fighting%20for%20the%20rights%20of%20man%22&f=false (1849), by Benjamin Franklin Ells, The Western Miscellany, Volume 1, p. 233.
1780s

„We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
We thought the long train would run to the end of Time.
We thought the light would increase.
Now the long train stands derailed and the bandits loot it.
Now the boar and the asp have power in our time.
Now the night rolls back on the West and the night is solid.
Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth.
Our children know and suffer the armed men.“

—  Stephen Vincent Benét poet, short story writer, novelist 1898 - 1943

Zdroj: Litany for Dictatorships (1935)

„we grow fearless when we do the things we fear“

—  Robin S. Sharma Canadian self help writer 1965

Zdroj: The Secret Letters of the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

„[T]he entire country should man up. We are drowning in weenification and snowflakiness. Shall we grow a national pair?“

—  Jay Nordlinger American journalist 1963

2010s, The Disinvitation Game, or, Against Weenification (2018)

„We grow despite the
horror that we feed
upon our own
tomorrow.
We grow.“

—  Maya Angelou, kniha I Shall Not Be Moved

"Glory Falls"
I Shall Not Be Moved (1990)

„So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.“

—  Robert Louis Stevenson Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer 1850 - 1894

"Lay Morals" Ch. 4, in Lay Morals and Other Essays (1911) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/373.

„We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.“

—  Shirley Jackson, kniha We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Zdroj: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

„We then, who are this new soul, know
Of what we are composed and made,
For the' atomies of which we grow
Are souls, whom no change can invade.
But oh alas, so long, so far,
Our bodies why do we forbear?
They're ours, though they're not we; we are
The intelligences, they the spheres.“

—  John Donne English poet 1572 - 1631

The Ecstasy, line 45

„We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.“

—  Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston British politician 1784 - 1865

Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1848/mar/01/treaty-of-adrianople-charges-against to the House of Commons (1 March 1848).
1840s
Kontext: I hold with respect to alliances, that England is a Power sufficiently strong, sufficiently powerful, to steer her own course, and not to tie herself as an unnecessary appendage to the policy of any other Government. I hold that the real policy of England—apart from questions which involve her own particular interests, political or commercial—is to be the champion of justice and right; pursuing that course with moderation and prudence, not becoming the Quixote of the world, but giving the weight of her moral sanction and support wherever she thinks that justice is, and wherever she thinks that wrong has been done... I say that it is a narrow policy to suppose that this country or that is to be marked out as the eternal ally or the perpetual enemy of England. We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.... And if I might be allowed to express in one sentence the principle which I think ought to guide an English Minister, I would adopt the expression of Canning, and say that with every British Minister the interests of England ought to be the shibboleth of his policy.

„Man is neither carnivorous nor herbivorous. He has neither the teeth of the cud-chewers, nor their four stomachs, nor their intestines. If we consider these organs in man, we must conclude him to be by nature and origin frugivorous, as is the ape.“

—  Jean Pierre Flourens 1794 - 1867

Quoted in The Perfect Way in Diet by Anna Kingsford (London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1881), p. 14 https://archive.org/stream/perfectwayindie00kinggoog#page/n36.

„It is necessary, therefore, if we would weld an idea solidly and indestructibly to a desired action, that we should fuse them together by the heat of an emotion.“

—  Jules Payot French educationist 1859 - 1940

Zdroj: The Education of the Will (1920), p. 100

„As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty spread and special privilege grow.“

—  Henry Ford, kniha My Life and Work

Zdroj: My Life and Work (1922), p. 10