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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Each day is new, but our lives shall be old in each new day if we fail to understand why each day is new. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. — J.K. Rowling

It is true what people say, the young have the ability, but lack the wisdom, and the old have the wisdom, but lack the ability. — Jose Saramago

There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, 'Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed. — Alexander Pope

I don't want nothing old but some old money. Buy me some young ideas. That's what I'm gonna do with it. — Moms Mabley

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty. — Megan Chance

What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom. — Graham Greene

I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier and lighter. — Jane Siberry

Still young and fine! but what is still in view We slight as old and soil'd, though fresh and new. — Henry Vaughan

Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer, With never a thought of sorrow; The old goes out, but the glad young year Comes merrily in tomorrow. — Emily J. Miller

29 The glory of young men is their strength, but w the splendor of old men is their gray hair. — Anonymous

I'm old enough to know better, but I'm still too young to care. — Wade Hayes

Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either. — Keith Richards

You may not stop getting older, but you can paint your world with the vibrant colors of love to keep feeling younger. — Debasish Mridha

The young people think the old people are fools
but the old people know the young people are fools. — Agatha Christie

Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream. — Donald G. Mitchell

She was an old woman, but she managed to look like a young woman with a ravaging disease. — Marilynne Robinson

But the old wolf's dead and young one's gone south to play the game of thrones, — George R R Martin

An old person knows what it's like to be young, but a young person doesn't know what it's like to be old. There's no substitute for life experience. — Eleanor Brownn

Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The tears of the young who go their way, last a day; But the grief is long of the old who stay. — John Townsend Trowbridge

The young may die, but the old must! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is bad enough to see young fools, but worse to see old fools. — Brigham Young

I feel like I am too old to eat jelly. But I am too young to eat prunes. I am between grapes. — Greg Fitzsimmons

Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old. — C.E. Murphy

Aging is not our fault, but we certainly are guilty of feeling it. — Munia Khan

When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder. — Julie Newmar

Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable. — Will Rogers

It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better. — Martin Luther

It's easier to be old than young. You make just as many blunders, but you've become much more adept at not recognizing them. — Terry Rossio

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

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing. — Coco Chanel

A man's body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever. — Michael Caine

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

How old are you?"

"Old enough to know better, but still young enough to do it again. — J.M. Stewart

It sucked to be old enough to want to know what was going on, but so young you were always dismissed. — Cassandra Clare

When you're thirty you're old enough to know better,but still young enough to go ahead and do it. — Brigitte Bardot

They say we're too young to love, but maybe they're just too old to remember.. — Wiz Khalifa

I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light. — Ruth Rendell

Being old enough to know better but still too young to resist mostly sucks. — Matthew Woodring Stover

Funny how I was old enough by sixteen to drink, fight and vote, but even two years later I am to young to respect. — Amie Kaufman

Turquoise, yellow, pink, a lot of the pastel colors are some of the more popular suit colors this year. But it varies from old to young. — Amy Wright

Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them. — Hippocrates

A thousand of old man are just able to dream, but a young man is able to change the world! — Sukarno

But I am old now; my life is older. When I made the choice I made, I did not think it was forever. It is another thing to give up so young. — Alex Flinn

Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? Youth? That is long ago. We are old folk. — Erich Maria Remarque

I sense the joy of young and old,
I hear wondrous tales told,
Beauty surrounds me as I gaze above,
But I am alone for I live without love. — Anonymous

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after. — Homer

You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it. — Tennessee Williams

When you're with a girl, it's always best to act like you're an old hand at everything - not to impress her, but just to make sure she feels safe. — Tim Tharp

I like red wine because it's more sophisticated, more complex and mature. It's a bit like me, no longer young but not old yet either. — Mick Hucknall

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old. — Martin Luther

The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me. — Raymond Chandler

Work, the old people say, keeps a man young. But perhaps that is something old folk say just because they know they must go on working. — Robin Hobb

My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion. — Diane Duane

Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young. — James Fenimore Cooper

But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public? — Bill Wyman

When you are young, you go where you wish, but when you are old, others will take you where you do not wish to go. — Jennifer Worth

Young people think they know it all, but a lot of old salts around know they don't. — Richard Jackson

Women are young at politics, but they are old at suffering; soon they will learn that through politics they can prevent some kinds of suffering. — Nancy Astor

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you. — Marilyn Monroe

Parent may hinder their children's marriage; but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of their parents in their second childhood. — Honore De Balzac

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen. — Henry Miller

The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The young are just as opinionated as the old, but have more exciting things to do than sit around airing their opinions all day. — Mason Cooley

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Old people should be heard but not seen. Young people should be seen, not heard. — Grace Slick

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. — Oscar Wilde

When you're young, you wish for things in the future, but when you grow old ... you wish for things from the past to — Lorraine Heath

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet. — Philip Levine

Why can men be boys all of their lives, but we women must grow old while we are yet young? — Sylvia Day

And the young do not tell themselves to the young, but to the old, like me, who have known so many sorrows and the causes of them. — Bram Stoker

God, he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days. — J.R. Ward

If we were teenagers, I could kiss you. But I'm on a platform behind a counter wearing a name tag and we're too old to be young. — Caroline Kepnes

Tatiana realized she was too young to hide well what was in her heart but
old enough to know that her heart was in her eyes. — Paullina Simons

You were young, I thought, not once but always before, always always, every day before the day just passed. You were young only minutes ago. — Timothy Schaffert

Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can. — Jean Paul

Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools. — George Chapman

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age. — Charles Dickens

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. — Dorothy L. Sayers

The young fought sleep, she thought, but the old relished it, and at the moment, she felt absolutely ancient. — Julie Garwood

They were all very young, really, too young for all they had seen, but too old not to have seen it. — Catherynne M Valente

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too. — Liv Tyler

A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but also when they are old and past service. — Plutarch

WOMEN sit, or move to and fro - some old, some young;
The young are beautiful - but the old are more beautiful than the young. — Walt Whitman

Young atheists abound, but old atheists are rare. — James Cook

Beware women grown
old
who were never
anything but
young — Charles Bukowski

I realize what a strange in-between place I am in. The Young Woman inside has turned to go, but the Old Woman has not shown up. — Sue Monk Kidd

Young women and young men grow up, but old women and old men just grow older and surer they've got right on their side. — Stephen King

There is much to be angry about in today's world, whether you are young or old, but certainly if you are young. Adultism reigns. — Adam Bucko

You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young! — Joanna Trollope

If the Fleeting World is but a long dream, it does not matter whether one is young or old. — Bai Juyi

I tried to do that very difficult thing, imagine old people young again and invested with the graces of youth. But — Charles Dickens

The pale leaf falls in pallor, but the green leaf turns to gold; We that have found it good to be young shall find it good to be old; — G.K. Chesterton

The old men send the young to die in war,
But if the roles were reversed, what then the score? — Alan Cook

I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift. — Max Cannon

I'm too young for a man, but I'm too old for a boy. So, can't we just pretend, that I'm older than I really am, but then, only little girls pretend. — Tori Amos