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  • The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience. -- Martin Filler
  • The magical story is not a microscope but a mirror, not a drop of water but a well. It is not simply one thing or two, but a multitude. It is at once both lucid and opaque, it accepts both dark and light, speaks to youth and old age. -- Jane Yolen
  • Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance. -- David Mamet
  • Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. -- Lactantius
  • Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. -- Anne Bradstreet
  • Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. -- Walter Savage Landor
  • 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
  • The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • 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. -- Charlotte Bronte
  • 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. -- Will Durant
  • 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. -- Carolyn Wells
  • 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
  • Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you 'sell' only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience. -- Wynton Marsalis
  • My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth. -- Robert Wyatt
  • Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera. -- Sela Ward
  • 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
  • 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
  • Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.' -- Gloria Steinem
  • In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train. -- Bruce Catton
  • Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. -- Louisa May Alcott
  • Old age and youth cannot live together. -- Christina Stead
  • Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth. -- Aeschylus
  • A youth of frolic, an old age of cards. -- Alexander Pope
  • It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth. -- Barbara Mertz
  • Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age. -- Andre Gide
  • Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • Age is never so old as youth would measure it. -- Jack London
  • The youth is better than the old age of friendship. -- William Hazlitt
  • Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age. -- Alfred de Vigny
  • Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free. -- William Wordsworth
  • The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age. -- Charles Caleb Colton
  • I cannot, in my old age, live off pieces of my youth. -- Peter Biskind
  • To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age. -- Publilius Syrus
  • A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience. -- Charles Caleb Colton
  • Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. -- Aristotle
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  • 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
  • Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. -- Victor Hugo
  • What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience. -- Mark Twain
  • A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. -- Meat Loaf
  • 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. -- Hosea Ballou
  • Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age -- Victor Hugo
  • An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Gather, gather your youth: Just like this flower, old age Your beauty will wither. -- Pierre de Ronsard
  • A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands. -- J.P. Donleavy
  • Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • The young donÂ?t know what age is, and the old forget what youth was. -- Seumas MacManus
  • Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it. -- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
  • What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age. -- Alfred de Vigny
  • In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. -- Socrates
  • For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity. -- W. Somerset Maugham
  • Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance. -- Honore de Balzac
  • Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. -- W. Somerset Maugham
  • It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age. -- Desiderius Erasmus
  • Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. -- W. Somerset Maugham
  • A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Fine #"? wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. -- Julia Child
  • The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old. -- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
  • The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old. -- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
  • The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • In youth, the absense of pleasure is pain, in old age, the absence of pain is pleasure. -- Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth
  • The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion. -- Democritus
  • The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage. -- Henry James Byron
  • In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • Youth is when you think you'll live forever. Old age is when you wonder how you've lived so long. -- Sam Ewing
  • Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age. -- Jose Rizal
  • 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. -- Walt Whitman
  • When your youth is about to enter in old age it shouldn't wonder, what happened? it must say, well done. -- Amit Kalantri
  • We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation. -- Voltaire
  • He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age. -- Josiah Johnson Hawes
  • Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age? -- William Shakespeare
  • He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old. -- Anthony Trollope
  • Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions. -- Bias of Priene
  • A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.] -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections. -- John Quincy Adams
  • Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth. -- StanisÅ?aw I LeszczyÅ?ski
  • 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. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • 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. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
  • 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. -- Brandon Mull
  • 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? -- Walt Whitman
  • 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... -- Sinclair Lewis
  • 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. -- Plato
  • 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. -- Amit Kalantri
  • 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
  • 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. -- Carolyn Wells
  • 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. -- Homer
  • 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. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • 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. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
  • 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. -- Hesketh Pearson
  • 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. -- Saint Augustine
  • 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. -- Julia Child
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