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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
One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent. -- Matthew Arnold
The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage. -- Henry James Byron
He who is of a 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
India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age -- Jawaharlal Nehru
So of course time is necessary. But nevertheless damn painful, for it transforms all the pieces of your life - joy and sorrow, youth and age, love and hate, terror and bliss - from fire into smoke rising up the air and dissipating on a breeze. -- Charles Frazier
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. -- Doris Day
Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance. -- David Mamet
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. -- Lactantius
Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength. -- Betty Friedan
There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and 'how well you look'. -- Nelson Rockefeller
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine. -- Thomas Moore
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. -- Anne Bradstreet
The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'. -- June Whitfield
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going. -- Anthony Burgess
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. -- Walter Savage Landor
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. -- Charles Caleb Colton
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long. -- Pope Paul VI
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
The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age. -- Dorothy Dix
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. -- Jonathan Swift
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. -- Helen Garner
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. -- Henry James
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. -- J. B. Priestley
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. -- Maurice Chevalier
Youth has no age. -- Pablo Picasso
Age considers; youth ventures. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Reckless youth makes rueful age. -- Benjamin Franklin
Age demands respect; youth, love. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
An Idle youth, a needy Age. -- George Herbert
If youth knew; if age could. -- Sigmund Freud
Old age and youth cannot live together. -- Christina Stead
Raoul: Age and treachery! Neal: Youth and skill! -- Tamora Pierce
Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours. -- John Dryden
If youth only knew, if age only could. -- Samuel Ullman
Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage. -- Robert Browning
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In youth we learn; in age we understand. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill -- Fausto Coppi
Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skills. -- Ioan Gruffudd
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. -- Robert Browning
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth. -- J. K. Rowling
But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age. -- Ellen Glasgow
Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth. -- Aeschylus
It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth. -- Barbara Mertz
Why is youth so short and age so long? -- Ouida
When did Youth ever thank Age for its wisdom? -- Margaret Deland
A youth of frolic, an old age of cards. -- Alexander Pope
Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth. -- Navjot Singh Sidhu
In youth, love and art. In age, investments and antiques. -- Mason Cooley
Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it. -- Mason Cooley
Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age. -- Ellen Glasgow
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age. -- Andre Gide
The youth is better than the old age of friendship. -- William Hazlitt
Age is never so old as youth would measure it. -- Jack London
The noisy vacancy of youth, the quiet vacancy of age. -- Mason Cooley
Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives. -- C. S. Lewis
Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age. -- Alfred de Vigny
Age hath its quiet calm, and youth enjoyeth not for haste. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. -- Jeremy Collier
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. -- Jonathan Swift
A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free. -- William Wordsworth
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. -- Edmund Burke
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Age is deformed, youth unkind, We scorn their bodies, they our mind. -- Thomas Bastard
In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears -- Philibert Joseph Roux
A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. -- Aristotle
To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age. -- Publilius Syrus
In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age. -- Mason Cooley
Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth. -- Mason Cooley
I cannot, in my old age, live off pieces of my youth. -- Peter Biskind
Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth. -- Susanna Centlivre
A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous. -- Chilon of Sparta
The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth. -- Robinson Jeffers
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. -- Beverly Sills
The energy of youth with the experience of age is a lethal combination. -- Murad S. Shah
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. -- Victor Hugo
Age must give way to youth, no doubt. But not yet, not yet. -- Mason Cooley
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before. -- Ambrose Bierce
Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The great romance of your youth is your best friend at that age. -- Jonah Hill
So tutor youth that the sins of age be not imputed to thee. -- Pythagoras
Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience. -- Mark Twain
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine -- Thomas More
A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Gather, gather your youth: Just like this flower, old age Your beauty will wither. -- Pierre de Ronsard
There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look". -- Nelson Rockefeller
An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine." -- Thomas Moore
That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer. -- Robert Herrick
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age -- George Santayana
Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age -- Victor Hugo
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone. -- John Dryden
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. -- Hosea Ballou
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. -- Meat Loaf
What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness. -- Wallace Stegner
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. -- Socrates
The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age. -- Ambrose Bierce
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. -- William Shakespeare
The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind. -- Mortimer Collins
The young donÂ?t know what age is, and the old forget what youth was. -- Seumas MacManus
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age. -- Alfred de Vigny
See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands. -- J.P. Donleavy
Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it. -- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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