Quotes about Age and Youth

Old age and youth cannot live together. Votes: 3

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. Votes: 3

I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth. Votes: 3

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going. Votes: 3

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. Votes: 2

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance. Votes: 2

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. Votes: 2

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength. Votes: 2

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and 'how well you look'. Votes: 2

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine. Votes: 2

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. Votes: 2

The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'. Votes: 2

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going. Votes: 2

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. Votes: 2

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long. Votes: 2

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. Votes: 2

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age. Votes: 2

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. Votes: 2

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth. Votes: 2

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. Votes: 2

Youth has no age. Votes: 1

Age demands respect; youth, love. Votes: 1

Age considers; youth ventures. Votes: 0

Reckless youth makes rueful age. Votes: 0

An Idle youth, a needy Age. Votes: 0

If youth knew; if age could. Votes: 0

For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours. Votes: 0

Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers. Votes: 0

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age. Votes: 0

Raoul: Age and treachery! Neal: Youth and skill! Votes: 0

Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill Votes: 0

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age. Votes: 0

Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage. Votes: 0

In youth we learn; in age we understand. Votes: 0

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself. Votes: 0

If youth only knew, if age only could. Votes: 0

Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skills. Votes: 0

When did Youth ever thank Age for its wisdom? Votes: 0

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth. Votes: 0

Why is youth so short and age so long? Votes: 0

A youth of frolic, an old age of cards. Votes: 0

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. Votes: 0

But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age. Votes: 0

Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth. Votes: 0

It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth. Votes: 0

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age. Votes: 0

Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age. Votes: 0

Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth. Votes: 0

Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it. Votes: 0

Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age. Votes: 0

Age is never so old as youth would measure it. Votes: 0

In youth, love and art. In age, investments and antiques. Votes: 0

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age. Votes: 0

The noisy vacancy of youth, the quiet vacancy of age. Votes: 0

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age. Votes: 0

The youth is better than the old age of friendship. Votes: 0

Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives. Votes: 0

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. Votes: 0

Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin. Votes: 0

A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free. Votes: 0

Age hath its quiet calm, and youth enjoyeth not for haste. Votes: 0

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. Votes: 0

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age. Votes: 0

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. Votes: 0

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. Votes: 0

In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward. Votes: 0

Age is deformed, youth unkind, We scorn their bodies, they our mind. Votes: 0

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. Votes: 0

A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience. Votes: 0

To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age. Votes: 0

A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous. Votes: 0

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age. Votes: 0

Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age. Votes: 0

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth. Votes: 0

In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears Votes: 0

Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth. Votes: 0

I cannot, in my old age, live off pieces of my youth. Votes: 0

One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent. Votes: 0

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age. Votes: 0

The energy of youth with the experience of age is a lethal combination. Votes: 0

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth. Votes: 0

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. Votes: 0

Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before. Votes: 0

The great romance of your youth is your best friend at that age. Votes: 0

Age must give way to youth, no doubt. But not yet, not yet. Votes: 0

So tutor youth that the sins of age be not imputed to thee. Votes: 0

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur Votes: 0

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. Votes: 0

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. Votes: 0

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine." Votes: 0

Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience. Votes: 0

A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body. Votes: 0

Gather, gather your youth: Just like this flower, old age Your beauty will wither. Votes: 0

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine Votes: 0

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look". Votes: 0

An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body. Votes: 0

Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age Votes: 0

That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer. Votes: 0

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone. Votes: 0

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. Votes: 0

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age Votes: 0

A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. Votes: 0

What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance. Votes: 0

The young don’t know what age is, and the old forget what youth was. Votes: 0

Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age. Votes: 0

Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness. Votes: 0

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. Votes: 0

YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age. Votes: 0

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Votes: 0

The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind. Votes: 0

The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age. Votes: 0

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. Votes: 0

What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age. Votes: 0

Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it. Votes: 0

See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands. Votes: 0

Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit. Votes: 0

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age." Votes: 0

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. Votes: 0

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing. Votes: 0

Fine #"Ž wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. Votes: 0

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. Votes: 0

Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age. Votes: 0

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity. Votes: 0

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance. Votes: 0

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with. Votes: 0

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. Votes: 0

Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear. Votes: 0

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth. Votes: 0

A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state. Votes: 0

Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data. Votes: 0

It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age. Votes: 0

war made by age and fought by youth while age looked on and applauded and encored. Votes: 0

You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful. Votes: 0

Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. Votes: 0

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. Votes: 0

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old. Votes: 0

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old. Votes: 0

Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it. Votes: 0

Age had taught him patience. Youth had taught me to get frustrated at the lack of progress. Votes: 0

The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age. Votes: 0

In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age. Votes: 0

In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself. Votes: 0

Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind. Votes: 0

In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption. Votes: 0

In youth, the absense of pleasure is pain, in old age, the absence of pain is pleasure. Votes: 0

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion. Votes: 0

In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things. Votes: 0

Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both. Votes: 0

Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age. Votes: 0

in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized. Votes: 0

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going. Votes: 0

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know. Votes: 0

What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always produces the thistle. Votes: 0

The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage. Votes: 0

As we age, the bright light of youth either burns out or burns stronger - it's our choice. Votes: 0

Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example. Votes: 0

Timeless, so age don't count in the booth When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth Votes: 0

Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon. Votes: 0

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain. Votes: 0

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence. Votes: 0

How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease! Votes: 0

In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age. Votes: 0

Youth is when you think you'll live forever. Old age is when you wonder how you've lived so long. Votes: 0

Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest. Votes: 0

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. Votes: 0

We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain. Votes: 0

These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age. Votes: 0

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later Votes: 0

Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence. Votes: 0

I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age. Votes: 0

It is not age which killed Boston, for no cities die of age; it is the youth of other cities. Votes: 0

Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth. Votes: 0

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. Votes: 0

When your youth is about to enter in old age it shouldn't wonder, what happened? it must say, well done. Votes: 0

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age. Votes: 0

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age. Votes: 0

Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it. Votes: 0

All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age. Votes: 0

her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius. Votes: 0

Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes. Votes: 0

Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark. Votes: 0

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects. Votes: 0

Man hath a weary pilgrimage, As through the word he wends; On every stage, from youth to age, Still discontent attends. Votes: 0

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age. Votes: 0

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation. Votes: 0

Life should begin with age and it's privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and it's capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age? Votes: 0

Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age. Votes: 0

Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream. Votes: 0

He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age. Votes: 0

faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within. Votes: 0

We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality. Votes: 0

A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.] Votes: 0

Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions. Votes: 0

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth. Votes: 0

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth. Votes: 0

By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth. Votes: 0

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time. Votes: 0

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections. Votes: 0

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old. Votes: 0

Treasures are not for youth; at twenty years of age, one does not know how to be rich, or how to be loved. Votes: 0

What an exciting age it is we live in With all this talk about the hope of youth And nothing made of youth. Votes: 0

Time is so fleeting that if we do not remember God in our youth, age may find us incapable of thinking of him. Votes: 0

Memory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth, but deceives us both in our youth and our age. Votes: 0

The wrinkles in my brow, The furrows in my face, Say, limping age will lodge him now Where youth must give him place. Votes: 0

Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust. Votes: 0

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. Votes: 0

To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth. Votes: 0

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. Votes: 0

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost. Votes: 0

In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom. Votes: 0

Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of wisdom in him. Votes: 0

Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people. Votes: 0

Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision. Votes: 0

In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them. Votes: 0

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune. Votes: 0

I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion. Votes: 0

It must be an industrious youth that provides against age; and he that fools away the one must either beg or starve in the other. Votes: 0

In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you. Votes: 0

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders. Votes: 0

Your youth is certainly finished and old age has definitely arrived if you feel that you are losing enthusiasm, excitement and energy towards your dreams and goals. Votes: 0

Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth. Votes: 0

What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable. Votes: 0

Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong. Votes: 0

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction. Votes: 0

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order. Votes: 0

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth... Votes: 0

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day. Votes: 0

It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age. Votes: 0

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age. I missed it coming and going. Votes: 0

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence. Votes: 0

Patriotism is a passion which induces hot youth to rush forth to get shot and half shot, while sober, conservative age waves the flag and corrals the contracts. Votes: 0

It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it. Votes: 0

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. Votes: 0

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. Votes: 0

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life. Votes: 0

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life. Votes: 0

Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one. Votes: 0

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer. Votes: 0

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. Votes: 0

Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul. Votes: 0

Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger. Votes: 0

Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die. Votes: 0