Quotes on Age And Youth

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

We are always the same age inside.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transciencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.