| "Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age." »Victor Hugo |
| "He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden." »Plato |
| "Youth, large, lusty, loving- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination" »Mark Twain |
| "In youth we learn in age we understand." »Marie Ebner von Eschenbach |
| "If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength." »French Proverb |
| "Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age." »Alfred Victor Vigny |
| "Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth." »Robinson Jeffers |
| "Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions." »Bias |
| "Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young." »J. K. Rowling |
| "What's a man's age He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold." »Robert Browning |
| "Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal |
| "Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight." »Robertson Davies |
| "The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old." »Rosalyn S. Yalow |
| "The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion." »Democritus |
| "We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires." »Johann von Goethe |
| "The American ideal is youth -- handsome, empty youth." »Henry Miller |
| "The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten." »Arthur Schopenhauer |
| "Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy." »Haniel Long |
| "The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different." »Aldous Huxley |
| "It's not that age brings childhood back again, Age merely shows what children we remain." »German proverb |
| "Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place." »Abigail Van Buren |
| "I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time." »Louise Nevelson |
| "Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up by itself." »Woodrow Wilson |
| "In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them." »Brooks Atkinson |
| "Age to me means nothing. I can't get old I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age." »George Burns |
| "Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age." »Anais Nin |
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