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  • Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine -- Frederick Douglass
  • Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them. -- William Henry Hudson
  • I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged. -- Gertrude Stein
  • I'm sixty-two, and it's ecological sense to die while you're still productive, die and clear a space for others, old and young. -- Harold Brodkey
  • There is a certain power when old and young come together - we can do more together than we can on our own. -- Shane Claiborne
  • Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all. -- George R. R. Martin
  • Since I was a schoolboy, I've been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted. -- Seamus Heaney
  • I enjoy seeing other Indian musicians - old and young - coming to Europe and America and having some success. I'm happy to have contributed to that. -- Ravi Shankar
  • Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let them. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
  • Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool. -- Plato
  • In order for critical pedagogy, dialogue, and thought to have real effects, they must advocate the message that all citizens, old and young, are equally entitled, if not equally empowered, to shape the society in which they live. -- Henry Giroux
  • So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side. -- Samuel Johnson
  • A few years ago one of my wives, when talking about wives leaving their husbands said, 'I wish my husband's wives would leave him, every soul of them except myself.' That is the way they all feel, more or less, at times, both old and young. -- Brigham Young
  • Old and young disbelieve one another's truths. -- Mason Cooley
  • I like my whisky old and my women young. -- Errol Flynn
  • There's the young Jon Voight and the old Jon Voight. -- Jon Voight
  • Old and young, we are all on our last cruise. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
  • I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam. -- Stephen Ambrose
  • I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care. -- Broderick Crawford
  • The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
  • I am too old to die young, and too young to grow up. -- Marty Feldman
  • Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age. -- George Sand
  • Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. -- Francis Bacon
  • To young to hold on and to old to just break free and run. -- Jeff Buckley
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  • Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both. -- Joseph Addison
  • Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes. -- Paul Samuelson
  • Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old. -- Michael Caine
  • Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable, young and old alike. -- James T. Walsh
  • Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young ladies, was one of our staples. -- Graham Chapman
  • When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person. -- Diane von Furstenberg
  • I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It's good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young. -- Carine Roitfeld
  • That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old. -- Philip Pullman
  • Young. Old. Just Words. -- George Burns
  • Young men preen. Old men scheme. -- Mason Cooley
  • I'm too young to be this old. -- Mimi Sheraton
  • Always have old memories, and young hopes. -- Arsene Houssaye
  • Spare when young, and spend when old. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Old men dream dreams; young men see visions. -- Melvin B. Tolson
  • If were not foolish young, were foolish old. -- Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Old fools are greater fools than young ones. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • Growing old beats the alternative - dying young. -- Regina Brett
  • Young atheists abound, but old atheists are rare. -- James Cook
  • When all sinnes grow old, coveteousnesse is young. -- George Herbert
  • A young trooper should have an old horse. -- Henry George Bohn
  • Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam. -- Don DeLillo
  • When you're 84, a 70-year-old is still pretty young, -- Christian Horner
  • Memory is what makes us young or old. -- Alfred de Musset
  • To learn is to be young, however old. -- Aeschylus
  • The young may die, but the old must! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • How young can you die of old age? -- Steven Wright
  • too young to live, too old to die -- Jeffrey Rasley
  • Young men have visions, old men have dreams. -- Red Smith
  • Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable. -- Will Rogers
  • Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old. -- Pearl S. Buck
  • Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young. -- Ray Bradbury
  • Old Camels carry young Camels skins to the Market. -- George Herbert
  • When the old men fight, the young people die. -- Anne Fortier
  • Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old. -- Anne Frank
  • A young mistress is better than an old master. -- H. G. Wells
  • Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • America is a young country with an old mentality. -- George Santayana
  • I do not expect old heads on young shoulders. -- C. S. Lewis
  • I don't feel old or young, I just am -- Paul Weller
  • I'm much too young to feel this damn old. -- Garth Brooks
  • The old will die and the young will forget. -- David Ben-Gurion
  • Old men make wars that young men may die. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • "Oh to be old again," said a young corpse. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Old men make war, young men fight and die -- Winston Churchill
  • War is young men dying and old men talking -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • I like the Whisky old an the women young -- Errol Flynn
  • I want to die young at a ripe old age. -- Ashley Montagu
  • Old men are always young enough to learn with profit. -- Aeschylus
  • To be young is delightful; to be old is comfortable. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
  • The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. -- Oscar Wilde
  • The young break rules for fun. The old for profit. -- Mason Cooley
  • It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope. -- Gayla Reid
  • Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old. -- Naomi Shihab Nye
  • An old young man, will be a young old man. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books. -- G. H. Hardy
  • Curled up in bed, I'm young in the old way. -- Rae Armantrout
  • Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men. -- George Herbert
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  • The passions of the young are vices in the old. -- Joseph Joubert
  • Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young. -- Martha Beck
  • What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • ...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened. -- Terry Pratchett
  • No one who is young is ever going to be old. -- John Steinbeck
  • Old man, 40 years old against young hungry man from Great Britain! -- Vitali Klitschko
  • one day I'll be old, without ever having really been young -- Beatrice Sparks
  • If the very old will remember, the very young will listen. -- Chief Dan George
  • Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles. -- John Donne
  • Young. Old. Just words. Inside we feel like our shoe size. -- George Burns
  • Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders. -- Desiderius Erasmus
  • I keep thinking how young can you die from old age -- Drake
  • It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • But though an old man, I am but a young gardener. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • The young man must store up, the old man must use. -- Seneca the Younger
  • Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance. -- Irvin S. Cobb
  • Too old to die young, and too young to grow up. -- Marty Feldman
  • A grandma is old on the outside and young on the inside. -- John Wright
  • No Palestinian, young or old, would be frightened by these Israeli tactics. -- Mohammed Dahlan
  • The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it. -- Hortense Calisher
  • The old say, "I remember when." The young say, "What's the news?" -- Gelett Burgess
  • I'm old enough to know what to do with my young feelings. -- Georges Guetary
  • You are never too old or too young to be a leader. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
  • Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either. -- Keith Richards
  • I used to be so young, how did I get so old? -- Dan Mangan
  • Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old. -- Shelagh Delaney
  • The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care. -- Billy Zane
  • A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact. -- E. W. Howe
  • I'd Rather Be an Old Man's Sweetheart (Than a Young Man's Fool). -- Candi Staton
  • You're never too old. Unfortunately, you're always too young to know it. -- Robert Breault
  • Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners. -- Anthony Trollope
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