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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. — Edward Young

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

Chance, you've gone past something you couldn't afford to go past; your time, your youth, you've passed it. It's all you had and you've had it. — Tennessee Williams

Age hath its quiet calm, and youth enjoyeth not for haste. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay. — Lord Chesterfield

A current under sea
Picked his bones in whispers.
As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering the whirlpool. — T. S. Eliot

Women prefer to serve the present and are afraid of age; they are in the grip of youth of their dreams. Age is truly an oppression for women. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. — Herbert Hoover

Sum of life; Birth, childhood, youth, adulthood, parenthood, old age and death. — Lailah Gifty Akita

An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. — Meat Loaf

In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age. — Robert Southey

The young don't know what age is, and the old forget what youth was. — Seumas MacManus

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion. — Democritus

It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age. — Desiderius Erasmus

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age. — Dorothy Dix

You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die! — James Fenimore Cooper

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

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another. — John Cage

Memory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth, but deceives us both in our youth and our age. — Harley King

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet. — Seth Godin

Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives. — C.S. Lewis

A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. — Mark Twain

The three true ages of man are youth, middle age, and how the fuck did I get old so soon? — Stephen King

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. — Anne Bradstreet

The old age comes very quickly; let us welcome it and find new joys and new pursuits not known in the youth! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It's amazing how when we were young we wanted to know what it felt like to be older and when we are older we want the feeling of being younger again. — DeWayne Owens

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

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth. — Walter Scott

Faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within. — Anna Katharine Green

A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous. — Chilon Of Sparta

Age before beauty, and pearls before swine. — Dorothy Parker

Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age. — Samuel Johnson

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! — John Milton

The butterflies have flown away, like my ignorance and youth. — Eileen Granfors

Youth and age, she thought. Beginnings and endings, connections and constancy. And, love. — Nora Roberts

I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is not the flawless perfection of youth, but the fine lines, scars, and wisdom which only living can give you. — Reyna Pryde

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. — Isaac D'Israeli

Age looked at youth, and youth's applause first weakened, then died. — Stephen King

Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes. — M.C. Beaton

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going. — Anthony Burgess

With age brings wisdom; with youth brings innovation. Combine the two and they are unstoppable. — Ocian Hamel-Smith

That age is best which is the first
When youth and blood are warmer. — Robert Herrick

Every woman should have a youth she's content to leave behind and a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to telling it in her old age — Pamela Redmond Satran

This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth. — Mark Twain

Life should begin with age and it's privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and it's capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages. — Mark Twain

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Even such is time, that takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, our all we have,
And pays us but with age and dust. — Walter Raleigh

The three stages of life: youth, middle age, and 'You're looking good, Mr. Keating. — Ann Patchett

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,
it is exceedingly short. — Henry Ward Beecher

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. — Salvador Dali

In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption. — John Knox

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

We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors. — Anne Roiphe

Old age and youth cannot live together. — Christina Stead

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

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age. — Jose Rizal

Treasure the beauty of youthful life and the wisdom of adulthood. — Lailah Gifty Akita

All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example. — Ben Jonson

You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful. — Francis Spellman

To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth. — Stanislaw Leszczynski

Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers. — Oliver Wendell Holmes

It must be an industrious youth that provides against age; and he that fools away the one must either beg or starve in the other. — Heath L'Estrange

Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness. — Wallace Stegner

Their flat, unreadable faces showed no signs of youth or age, as if their relationship with time was somehow ambivalent; and — Stephen R. Donaldson

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. — Socrates

Cynicism is a boring and dull old man's disease people have no business getting when they're young. — Erika Lopez

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. — Lactantius

Think, speak, and act. With age comes self-reproach: I might have done more. Therefore now do! — Theophile Thore

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. — Jeremy Collier

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. — Walter Savage Landor

It was as if they wanted to take their older bodies and put their younger hearts inside. — Colum McCann

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation. — Voltaire

I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age. — James Thurber

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care. — William Shakespeare

A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free. — William Wordsworth

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

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine. — Thomas Moore

Resting on the roots of this old oak I lean back against his knotted trunk, shine my granny smith on my sleeve And ponder the days ... — Kellie Elmore

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity. — W. Somerset Maugham

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age. — Vera Nazarian

old age and treachery always beat out youth and skill. — Wayne Newton

Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skills. — Ioan Gruffudd

On the one hand maybe I've remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear. — Audrey Hepburn

Raoul: Age and treachery!
Neal: Youth and skill! — Tamora Pierce

Keep the enthusiasm of your youth and treasure the wisdom of old age. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth. — J.K. Rowling

By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth. — Marya Mannes

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained ... — Marya Mannes

Youth is to venture; age is to love nature and reflect. — Debasish Mridha

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. — Doris Day

Her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius. — Gertrude Atherton

In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself. — Joseph Joubert

These are the pieces of my youth,
the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations
that defined my coming of age. — Tablo

War made by age and fought by youth while age looked on and applauded and encored. — Evadne Price