Top 1200 Youth And Old Age Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.

An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.

Fine #? wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.

A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.

The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward.

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.

The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it.

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.

What an exciting age it is we live in With all this talk about the hope of youth And nothing made of youth.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.

See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend; A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot; Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.

When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care.

See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.

If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It will get away with anything, while age Knows only too well that it has got away with nothing.

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

Youth is when you think you'll live forever. Old age is when you wonder how you've lived so long.

But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.

I have passed out of childhood into old age. I have had no youth - no womanhood; the hopes of womanhood have closed for me - for I shall never marry; and I anticipate cares and sorrows just as if I were an old woman, and with the same fearful spirit.

A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

Life is not stationary. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years all tick away at the same clip for everyone. No age-group can be isolated. None of us can settle into infancy, youth, middle age, or old age. We all grow older, and, incidentally, it is an exciting thought if the accent is on growing. "Though our outward man perish," said Paul, "yet the inward man is renewed day by day" (2 Cor. 4:16; italics added).

Age's terms of peace, after the long interlude of war with life, have still to be concluded-Youth must keep decently away-so many old wounds may have to be unbound, and old scars pointed to with pride, to prove to ourselves we have been brave and noble.

Yes, that's the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? That is long ago. We are old folk.

In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.

Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.

I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful were usually twenty-three years old.

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.

...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness! It is so silly! Old age has nothing whatever to do with all that. The right old age means strength and beauty and mirth and courage and clear eyes and strong painless limbs.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you.

The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search for them, or even invent them. But with all that, boredom is their natural and inevitable accompaniment.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.

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

youth looks at its world and age looks through it; youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it, while age can, with luck, achieve a cosmic private harmony unsuited for action as a rule.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age.

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.