List of top 52 famous quotes and sayings about age over youth to read and share with friends on your Facebook, Twitter, blogs.
Top 52 Quotes About Age Over Youth
#1. It's strange how in childhood it feels like tomorrow won't come until the end of forever, but in adulthood it feels like the end of forever could come tomorrow.
#2. Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,
it is exceedingly short.
#3. The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.
#4. He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.
#5. The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish.
#6. You dont have to know a soul to know what I know
to expect what I'm expecting
to feel yourself alive and dying in your chest every minute of the livelong day
When you're young you wanta cry, when you're old you wanta die. But that's too deep for you now, Ti mon Pousse
#7. Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
#8. Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage.
#9. Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!
#10. You don't know yet what money is. Money is power, when you have lived as long as I have. I know, I know. If youth but knew. But what does Shakespeare say? Put money in thy purse.
#11. As though on a seedling whose blossoms ripen at different times, I had seen in old ladies, on that beach at Balbec, the dried-up seeds and sagging tubers that my girl-friends would become. But, now that it was time for buds to blossom, what did that matter?
#12. Where's the hope that can abate
The grief of hearts thus desolate
That can Youth's keenest pangs assuage,
And mitigate the gloom of Age?
Religion bids the tempest cease,
And, leads her to a port of peace;
And on, the lonely pilot steers
Through the lapse of future years.
#13. When you enter heaven you shall find Him there bearing the dew of His youth; and through eternity the Lord Jesus shall still remain the perennial spring of joy, and life, and glory to His people.
#14. At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
#15. A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.
#16. A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
#17. All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
#18. Youthful life is a beautiful bliss.
#19. Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.
#20. The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
#21. Youth calls to age across the tired years: 'What have you found,' he cries, 'what have you sought? 'What have you found,' age answers through his tears, 'What have you sought.
#22. It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
#23. The Coming of Wisdom with Time
Though leaves are many, the root is one;
Through all the lying days of my youth
I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;
Now I may wither into the truth.
#24. Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.
#25. I was raised Christian after age 5, but I didn't really understand it until high school. A friend of mine invited me to his youth group. There I heard the gospel, understood it, and accepted it.
#26. Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.
#27. Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
#28. During my completely soul-shredding midlife crisis at the age of twenty-eight, I felt sure I had peaked too soon.
#29. In youth, love and art. In age, investments and antiques.
#30. At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
#31. In life you'll face difficulties that postpone some of your dreams. Regardless, life goes fast by reminding us youth is finite and old age is stable. So you mustn't stop dreaming and running while your strength is yet tough.
#32. The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has something new to teach us. The harvest of youth is achievement; the harvest of middle-age is perspective; the harvest of age is wisdom; the harvest of life is serenity.
#33. Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.
#34. It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.
#35. Memory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth, but deceives us both in our youth and our age.
#36. The search of the Holy Grail or the voyage towards a new continent never enlisted so much energy and so much faith as does this pursuit of youth by old age. It is a race not of the fleet but of the most credulous.
#37. Women have the stress of being beautiful, of age and youth. Men don't have all that. And with women, that stress causes a lot of mistakes and bad choices - a lot of not being their true self.
#38. Greatness is never appreciated in youth, called pride in midlife, dismissed in old age, and reconsidered in death. Because we cannot tolerate greatness in our midst, we do all we can do destroy it.
#39. YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.
#40. Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
#41. At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old.
#42. His skin like grey bark, his eyes pale as a winter pool, time and age had worn my father to the bone. In our youth, he'd been a strict master lording over my lessons while tender with the flower of his heart, my sister Anabine. Ana, the lovely, blooming jewel. Zyndel, she of clever wit.
#43. I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.
#44. I know that age, it's a particularly obstinate one, and a thousand bogies won't make you fear the future. A pity we can't change over.
#45. India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion
and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age
#46. Was he the only one who was just old enough to speak out, not yet so old and jaded that he acceded to authority over anything else?
Or was it the opposite? Was he of the age where he had the ignorance of youth coupled with the arrogance of adulthood?
#47. Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
#48. A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.
#49. Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.
#50. Man no longer dreams over a book in which a soft voice, a constant companion, observes, exhorts, or sighs with him through the pangs of youth and age. Today he is more likely to sit before a screen and dream the mass dream which comes from outside.
#51. A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age.
[Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]
#52. Goodness, for me, has to start in my own backyard: find what's beautiful about where I am right now, rather than criticizing myself for what I'm not. We live in a culture where physical perfection and youth is revered, and so women over a certain age begin to feel irrelevant.
