Quotes on Youth And Old Age

It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

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.

All diseases run into one, old age.

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

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

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.

A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.

Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.

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