Young and old Quotes
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
Oscar Wilde
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.
Oscar Wilde
The earth has grown old with its burden of care. But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung.
Phillips Brooks
Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older, while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.
Christopher Lasch
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
Eric Hoffer
Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do.
French Proverb
The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.
Robertson Davies
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Older kids are likely to assume younger ones have a sophistication that they really don't.
Bridgett Blackburn
Time for the weather report. It's cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
In my philosophy everyone, including the poor, sick and aged, belongs to one familyGods Family. God is at once poor and rich, sick and healthy, young and old, for He exists inside each and every individual. Here on earth we are all Gods children.
Sri Chinmoy
But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too.
Kenneth Edmonds
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Willa Sibert Cather
The old forget, the young don't know.
German Proverb
What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
Oscar Wilde
The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The old forget, the young don't know
German Proverb
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
John Ciardi
It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, "What should I write at the age of sixty-four," but never, "What should I write in 1940."
Wystan Hugh Auden
The young have aspirations that will never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened
H. H. Munro
Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil.
Lord Byron
Everyone, Republican or otherwise, has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small; no one is too old or too young to do something.
Bobby Sands
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
Oscar Wilde
The old forget, the young don't know
German Proverb
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
John Ciardi
Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
Epicurus
And whatever people might say about the time having come when young people must arrange their future for themselves, she could not believe it any more than she could believe that loaded pistols could ever be the best toys for five-year-old children.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.
Robertson Davies
By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science.
Jacob Bronowski
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
Aristotle
The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.
Jesse Jackson
Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old
Epicurus
It is wrong to believe that frank sentiments and the candor of the mind are the exclusive share of the young; they ornament oftentimes old age, upon which they seem to spread a chaste reflection of the modest graces of their younger days, where they shine with the same brightness as those flowers which are often seen peeping, fresh and laughing, from among ruins.
Achille Poincelot
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.
Allan Massie
Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.
Sir Francis Bacon
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.
Logan Pearsall Smith
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
Hector Hugh Munro
When I was younger it was twice a day with a game on the weekend. Then when I got older, three times a day everyday in college and on the national team.
Brandi Chastain
Water Quote:I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul
Victor Hugo
I have retained a belief that it is the popular sporty kids at school who grow up to have the least interesting lives, and the unhappy young souls who develop into the most extraordinary adults. Whoever heard of a creative genius being understood as a child and well loved by his class mates? Who like to imagine an artist who emerged into adulthood content with his lot? And, conversely, how satisfying to hear that almost without exception, the untroubled, popular kids at school have ended up blandly as accountants, solicitors or in IT. Hold on, misfits, your day will come.
Derren Victor Brown
Time, they say, must the best of us capture, And travel and battle and gems and gold No more can kindle the ancient rapture, For even the youngest of hearts grows old.
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
Yet somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.
Ray Douglas Bradbury
This is the year which people will talk about This is the year which people will be silent about. The old see the young die. The foolish see the wise die. The earth no longer produces, it devours. The sky hurls down no rain, only iron.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
High above the lake a bomber flies. From the rowing boats Children look up, women, an old man. From a distance They appear like young starlings, their beaks Wide open for food.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
Oscar Wilde
The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde
Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
Oscar Wilde
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Sir Arthur Pinero
You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
George Bernard Shaw
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
Aristotle
The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness.
Victor Hugo
Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
Hippocrates
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 2 or 8. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Moshe Arens
You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.
Ernest Hemingway
I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.
Robert Frost
There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.
Kin Hubbard
War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.
Chris Hedges
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
Oscar Wilde
The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness.
Victor Hugo
Though an old man I am but a young gardener
Thomas Jefferson
The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones-which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
Sydney J. Harris
The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung.
Phillips Brooks
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Sydney J. Harris
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.
Luella F. Phean
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.
John B. Priestly
A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, big or small, young or old. He doesn't care if you're not smart, not popular, not a good joke-teller, not the best athlete, nor the best-looking person. To your dog, you are the greatest, the smartest, the nicest human being who was ever born. You are his friend and protector.
Louis Sabin
