Quotes by Subject: Youth & Old Age
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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. | |||
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. | |||
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished how much he had learned in seven years. | |||
I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them. | |||
For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.' | |||
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. | |||
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives. | |||
Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death. | |||
The secret of eternal youth is arrested development. | |||
To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am. | |||
If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again. | |||
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice. | |||
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. | |||
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. | |||
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. | |||
Old age is fifteen years older than I am. | |||
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. | |||
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. | |||
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. | |||
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. | |||
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old. | |||
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. | |||
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. | |||
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. | |||
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. | |||
To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty, still (Sonnet 104) | * | ||
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. | |||
I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. | |||
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood. | |||
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. | |||
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. | |||
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. | |||
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong. | |||
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. | |||
Old age ain't no place for sissies. | * | ||
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. | |||
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. | * | ||
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. | |||
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. | |||
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. | |||
No wise man ever wished to be younger. | * | ||
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. | * | ||
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. | |||
I am not young enough to know everything. | * | ||
Growing old is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. | |||
If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. | * | ||
Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. | |||
If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had. | |||
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves. | |||
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. | * | ||
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. | |||
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers. | |||
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. | * | ||
I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane. | |||
When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business. | |||
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret. | |||
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. | |||
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. | |||
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. | |||
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