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

Age Pleasure Youth Salvation Old Age Making Love

Author:Voltaire

“Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.”

Persons Age Sex Pleasure Youth Authority Old Age Carrie Virtuous

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

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

Age Education Wise Youth Old Age Productive

Author:Meat Loaf

“Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.”

Years Age Learning Youth Old Age Dry Infancy Juvenile

Book:Bacon's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Bacon's Essays: Top Essays

“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.”

Soul Age Grace Youth Comfort Adversity Prosperity Delight Old Age Refuge Ornaments Provocation

Author:Saint Augustine

“Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.”

War Seems Age Given Nice Youth Wind Balls Old Age Zeus Wool

Book:The Iliad

Source: The Iliad

“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.”

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

States Body Hands Age Youth Old Age Worn Worn Out

Book:Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age; Letters of Pliny the Younger

Source: Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age; Letters of Pliny the Younger

“The magical story is not a microscope but a mirror, not a drop of water but a well. It is not simply one thing or two, but a multitude. It is at once both lucid and opaque, it accepts both dark and light, speaks to youth and old age.”

Wells Two Stories Light Age Speak Water Dark Accepting One Thing Youth Mirrors Old Age Multitudes Microscopes Drop Of Water Youth And Old Age Opaque

Book:Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

Source: Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

“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.”

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works

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

Age Memories Youth Adversity Prosperity Delight Old Age Temper

Author:Lactantius

“Every one of the geezers who continues to play a leadership role has one quality of overriding importance: neotony. The dictionary definition is that neotony, a zoological term, involves "the retention of youthful qualities throughout old age." It is more than merely retaining a youthful appearance, although that is often part of it. Neotony is the retention of all those wonderful qualities that we associate with youth: curiosity, playfulness, eagerness, fearlessness, warmth, energy.”

“Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.”

Looks Dream Age Time Realizing Youth Built Aging Old Age Insane Insanity Birthday Dean Asylums Inmates Insane Asylum Lunatic Asylums

Book:Either/or

Source: Either/or

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

“Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.”

Age Youth Beats Old Age Treachery Exuberance

Author:David Mamet

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

Different Age Time Pleasure Youth Aging Old Age Birthday Growing Old Ageing Youth And Old Age Silly Person

Book:Mr. Maugham Himself

Source: Mr. Maugham Himself

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

Long Age Funny Time Youth Ready Tasks Aging Old Age Old People Elders Elderly Youth And Old Age

Book:Mr. Maugham Himself

Source: Mr. Maugham Himself

“Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.”

Ifs Men Looks Age Time Youth Old Age Linked Insomnia

Author:Herman Melville

“How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?”

“In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.”

Inspirational Years Long Age Youth Hair Aging Old Age Getting Old Getting Older Growing Older Birthdays And Aging Youth And Old Age Age And Youth Growing Old Gracefully

Author:Pope Paul VI

“A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.”

Men Character Happens Age Youth Circumstances Aging Obvious Old Age Characteristics Superficial Observers Never Change

Author:Hesketh Pearson

“Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.”

Age Pain Death Time Pleasure Youth Aging Old Age Birthday Tyrants

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.”

Running Age Time Youth Difficulty Aging Old Age Getting Old Getting Older

Author:Beverly Sills

“Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.”

Men Long Age Desire Wish Youth Aging Every Man Old Age Cute Growing Old Youth And Old Age Age And Youth Desire To Live

Author:Jonathan Swift

“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.”

“For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the most solid among them) and that fame is transitory, the manner in which—by means of a sort of snapshot—we take cognisance of this moving universe whirled along by Time, has the contrary effect of immobilising it.”

Knows Way Giving Years Mean Age Moving Universe Effects Youth Fame Fortune Contrary Old Age Thrones Transitory Snapshots

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)

“You are never too old to become younger!”

Age Youth Humorous Aging Witty Old Age Maturity Sarcastic Paradox Old People Youthfulness Age And Youth Staying Young

Author:Mae West

“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.”

Years Stills Age Memories Youth Active Impression Old Age Callous

Author:Charlotte Bronte

“Heads in the Women's Ward On pillow after pillow lies The wild white hair and staring eyes; Jaws stand open; necks are stretched With every tendon sharply sketched; A bearded mouth talks silently To someone no one else can see. Sixty years ago they smiled At lover, husband, first-born child. Smiles are for youth. For old age come Death's terror and delirium.”

Years Firsts Children Eye Age Lying Born White Youth Hair Lovers Husband Mouths Years Ago Terror Old Age Staring Necks Sixty Pillow Delirium White Hair

Author:Philip Larkin

“Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.”

Age Youth Needed Tragedy Old Age Vigorous Carols

Book:Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott

Source: Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott

“We are born one time only, we can never start a new life equipped with the experience we've gained from the previous one. We leave childhood without knowing what youth is, we marry without knowing what it is to be married, and even when we enter old age, we don't know what it is we're heading for: the old are innocent children innocent of thier old age. In that sense, man's world is the planet of inexperience.”

Knows Men World Children Age Born Knowing Childhood Youth Planets Married Innocent Old Age One Time New Life Being Married Headings Inexperience Innocent Children

Author:Milan Kundera

“Love is the very essence of life. It is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Yet it is more than the end of the rainbow. Love is the security for which children weep, the yearning of youth, the adhesive that binds marriage, and the lubricant that prevents devastating friction in the home; it is the peace of old age, the sunlight of hope shinning through death.”

Children Ends Home Age Love Is Security Youth Gold Essence Old Age Pot Yearning Sunlight Rainbow Friction Essence Of Life Pot Of Gold Adhesive

Book:Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

Source: Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

“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”

“Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.”

Source: Little Women (Illustrated Edition)

“Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.”

“We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them.”

Age Pay Mistake Youth Devil Old Age Maturity

Book:The Midnight Palace

Source: The Midnight Palace

“The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.”

Humor Age Young Time Growing Youth Tragedy Old Age Young Age Growing Old Young And Old Youth And Old Age Age And Youth Age And Wisdom Old Age Humor Aging And Wisdom

Author:Oscar Wilde

“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.”

Ifs Care Age Spirit Childhood Youth Sorrow Old Age Fearful Womanhood Anticipate Old Woman

Book:The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

“So much working, reading, thinking, living to do. A lifetime is not long enough. Nor youth to old age long enough. Immortality and permanence be damned. Sure I want them, but they are nonexistent, and won't matter when I rot underground. All I want to say is: I made the best of a mediocre job. It was a good fight while it lasted. And so life goes.”

Thinking Want Long Made Matter Enough Age Jobs Fighting Reading Youth Lifetime Old Age Immortality Mediocre Permanence Good Fight

Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“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.”

Seems Age Youth Old Age Mortals Behave Adulthood Nymphs

Book:Fablehaven

Source: Fablehaven

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