Youth and Age

"People don't like reality, they don't like common sense, until age forces it on them."

Graham Greene

Intellect, Judgement

Reality and Imagination

Youth and Age

Rating: 7.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Whatever you can do, do it today and then old age will be a delicious fruit."

Nhat Hanh

Work and Laziness

Youth and Age

Rating: 7.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Age is not important unless you're a cheese."

Helen Hayes

Youth and Age

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind."

Timothy Leary

Youth and Age

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth."

Natalie Clifford Barney

Youth and Age

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Oh, to be seventy again!"

Georges Clemenceau

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"True love never grows old."

Catalan Proverbs

Love

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Wisdom goes not always by years."

Catalan Proverbs

Wisdom and Stupidity

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Adults should remember that they look like insane giants to children."

Irving Fiske

Family and Loneliness

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.29 (Number of Voters: 7)

"You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing."

Michael Pritchard

Youth and Age

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Education is the best provision for the journey to old age."

Aristotle

Education

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still."

Chinese Proverbs

Knowledge, Ignorance

Youth and Age

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 6)

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."

Andrew Carnegie

Manners and Ethics

Youth and Age

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."

Abraham Lincoln

Family and Loneliness

Time and Passing

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination."

Louis Kronenberger

Youth and Age

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Everything I know I learned after I was thirty."

Georges Clemenceau

Education

Youth and Age

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines."

Dag Hammarskjöld

Life and Death

Time and Passing

Youth and Age

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"How do you live a long life? Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast."

Harry S. Truman

Health and Alcohol

Life and Death

Youth and Age

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Old people think young people haven't learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love."

Isaac Asimov

Love

Memory

Youth and Age

Rating: 7.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."

Truman Capote

Life and Death

Youth and Age

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Youth and Age

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped."

Arthur Schopenhauer

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young."

Fred Astaire

Youth and Age

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

Albert Einstein

Intellect, Judgement

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."

Bernard Mannes Baruch

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools."

Doug Larson

Life and Death

Wisdom and Stupidity

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The secret of eternal youth is arrested development."

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Youth and Age

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."

George Bernard Shaw

Family and Loneliness

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is."

Kenny Rogers

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

Clarence Irving Lewis

Dreams and Desires

Youth and Age

Rating: 8.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"To grow you need to understand that the most important word in the world is not the word "me"."

Kazimierz Matan

Egoism

Human

Youth and Age

Rating: 6.57 (Number of Voters: 7)

"Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional."

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Youth and Age

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier."

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Dreams and Desires

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Some people have no respect for age unless it's bottled."

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Health and Alcohol

Youth and Age

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust."

Jean Baudrillard "Cool Memories"

Politics and Diplomacy

Youth and Age

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"It's my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late."

Betty Ford "The Last Word"

Family and Loneliness

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Good men are like wine, some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age."

Pope John XXIII

Good and Evil

Human

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.71 (Number of Voters: 7)

"There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age."

Bill Bryson "The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America"

Various

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has."

Anita Brookner "The Misalliance"

Defeates and Mistakes

Time and Passing

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness."

F. Scott Fitzgerald "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz"

Youth and Age

Rating: 7.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"I'll trade wisdom for youth any day."

Brad Pitt Los Angeles Times; December 26, 2008

Wisdom and Stupidity

Youth and Age

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old: It is the rust we value, not the gold."

Alexander Pope "Imitations of Horace"

Art and Culture

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art."

Eleanor Roosevelt

Beauty and Ugliness

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."

Henry David Thoreau

Youth and Age

Rating: 7.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"With the cruelty of youth I allowed myself to be irritated by traits in my father which, in other elderly men, I have since regarded as lovable foibles."

Clive Staples Lewis "Surprised By Joy"

Family and Loneliness

Youth and Age

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another."

Horace "Epistles"

Time and Passing

Youth and Age

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age, one becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on, one is less often delighted or surprised, but also less disappointed."

Albert Einstein "Letter to Queen Elizabeth of Belgium"

Time and Passing

Youth and Age

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."

Saint-Exupery-Antoine-de "The Little Prince"

Intellect, Judgement

Youth and Age

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)