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Category: Youth and Age

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1. "Some have the wisdom of old age and the energy of youth. Most have the wisdom of youth, and the energy of old age."

Anon.

2. "Every adult needs a child to teach; it's the way adults learn."

Frank A. Clark

Quotations about: Education

3. "You are too young to be old."

Jim Morrison

4. "Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places."

Anon.

5. "Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life."

Herbert Asquith

6. "Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened."

Jennifer Yane

7. "The Child is father of the Man."

William Wordsworth

8. "Every girl should use what mother nature gives her before father time takes it away."

Laurence J. Peter

Quotations about: Woman and Man

9. "At age 20 we worry about what others think of us. At 40 we don't care what they think of us. At 60 we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all."

Ann Landers

10. "Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need do to lose weight is to take a bath."

Richard S. Zera

11. "At my age, flowers scare me."

George Burns

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

12. "Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers."

Lewis Mumford, "The Brown Decades"

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

13. "The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence."

Art Linkletter

Quotations about: Human

14. "Older men declare war. But it is youth who must fight and die."

Herbert Hoover

Quotations about: Peace and War

15. "It is a well-known statistical paradox that the average age of women over forty is under forty."

Morris James Slonim

Quotations about: Woman and Man

16. "Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you."

Robert Fulghum

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

17. "A face without freckles is like a sky without stars."

Anon.

18. "Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age."

George Burns

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

19. "Adult: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle."

Anon.

Quotations about: Various

20. "An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: The older she gets, the more interested he is in her."

Agatha Christie

Quotations about: Marriage

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21. "It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts."

Adlai E. Stevenson II

Quotations about: Time and Passing

22. "A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase."

proverb

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

23. "The heart that loves is always young."

Greek proverb

Quotations about: Love

24. "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty."

Henry Ford

Quotations about: Education

25. "A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark."

Chinese proverb

Quotations about: Education

26. "A baby sitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers."

Anon.

27. "Most women are not so young as they are painted."

Sir Max Beerbohm

Quotations about: Woman and Man

28. "It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date."

George Bernard Shaw, "Fanny's First Play"

29. "A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."

Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin"

Quotations about: Various

30. "As for being a General, well at the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it."

Peter Ustinov, "Romanoff and Juliet"

31. "At 50, everyone has the face he deserves."

George Orwell

32. "To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am."

Bernard Mannes Baruch

33. "These bitter sorrows of childhood! when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless."

George Eliot, "The Mill on the Floss"

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia

34. "All that is good in man lies in youthful feeling and mature thought."

Joseph Joubert

35. "There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in."

Graham Greene

36. "Ask the young. They know everything."

Joseph Joubert

37. "Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age."

Jonathan Swift

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

38. "Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them."

Oscar Wilde

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

39. "I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity."

Tom Stoppard

40. "A generation which ignores history has no past - and no future."

Robert A. Heinlein

Quotations about: History and Nations

41. "Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old."

Jonathan Swift

42. "Infancy, n. The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, 'Heaven lies about us.' The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

43. "Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered."

Graham Greene, "A Sort of Life"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

44. "The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it."

Joseph Joubert

45. "In youth we run into difficulties, in old age, difficulties run into us."

Josh Billings

46. "We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it."

George Eliot, "The Mill on the Floss"

47. "Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin."

Robert A. Heinlein

48. "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

Mark Twain

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

49. "Childhood is the sleep of reason."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

50. "Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."

Michel de Montaigne

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