Youth And Old Age Quotes

Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day’s long.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.