Youth and Age

"The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children."

Mahatma Gandhi

Love

Youth and Age

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."

Benjamin Franklin

Life and Death

Wisdom and Stupidity

Youth and Age

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth!"

Stendhal "The Charterhouse of Parma"

Love

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"You get old only when you start having more memories than dreams."

Agnieszka Lisak

Dreams and Desires

Memory

Youth and Age

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature."

Albert Einstein

Family and Loneliness

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Woodrow T. Wilson

Wisdom and Stupidity

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Every man over forty is responsible for his face."

Abraham Lincoln

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel."

Will Kommen

Various

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of."

William Golding

Family and Loneliness

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?"

Evelyn Waugh

Youth and Age

Rating: 2.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."

Groucho Marx

Youth and Age

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Parents teach in the toughest school in the word: The School for Making People."

Virginia Satir

Education

Family and Loneliness

Youth and Age

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Whom the gods love dies young."

Menander

Life and Death

Youth and Age

Rating: 6.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older."

John Dos Passos "The Ground We Stand On"

Friendship and Hostility

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home."

Phyllis Diller

Family and Loneliness

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The hardest part about being a kid is knowing you have got your whole life ahead of you."

Jane Wagner "Edith Ann"

Life and Death

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it."

Arthur Schopenhauer

Life and Death

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age."

Sophia Loren

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair."

gen. Douglas MacArthur

Courage and Fear

Optimism and Hope

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"As I grow older , I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me."

Sir Henry Rider Haggard

Intellect, Judgement

Youth and Age

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever."

Don Marquis

Health and Alcohol

Youth and Age

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else."

Ogden Nash

Memory

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing."

Baltasar Gracian "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"

Youth and Age

Rating: 2.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age."

William Feather

Family and Loneliness

Youth and Age

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Sure i'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day."

Lillian Carter

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do."

Lois Wyse "Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother"

Family and Loneliness

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation."

Lois Wyse "Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother"

Family and Loneliness

Youth and Age

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Age appears to be best in four things - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

Francis Bacon

Youth and Age

Rating: 1.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The secret of a long life is knowing when it's time to go."

Michele Shocked

Life and Death

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Love in the Time of Cholera"

Family and Loneliness

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"There is no such thing as the old age of the wise."

Sophocles

Wisdom and Stupidity

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings."

Gérard Depardieu

Defeates and Mistakes

Truth and Falsity

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex."

Prue Leith

Health and Alcohol

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Life begins at forty."

Walter B. Pitkin "Life begins at forty"

Life and Death

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to "that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress", and you find that you're the one in the green dress."

Lois Wyse "Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother"

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret."

Benjamin Disraeli "Coningsby"

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"In America, every female under fifty calls herself a "girl.""

H.E. Bates "Summertime"

Woman and Man

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up."

Joseph Barth

Marriage

Youth and Age

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older."

Anouk Aimée

Beauty and Ugliness

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own."

Margaret Atwood

Youth and Age

Rating: 6.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts."

Jose Ortega y Gasset "The Revolt of the Masses"

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul."

André Maurois "The Art of Living"

Youth and Age

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form."

André Maurois "The Art of Living"

Work and Laziness

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

Francis Bacon "Essays"

Marriage

Woman and Man

Youth and Age

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success."

Francis Bacon "Essays"

Success and Fame

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own."

Doug Larson

Family and Loneliness

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The purpose of life is to fight maturity."

Dick Werthimer

Various

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The situation of our youth is not mysterious. Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models."

James Baldwin "Nobody Knows My Name"

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)