Age And Youth – Quotes

Like our shadows, our

Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. Edward Young

We\’ve put more effort

We’ve put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it. Frank Howard Clark

Age appears to be

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 is a disease

Youth is a disease from which we all recover. Dorothy Fuldheim

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. Doris Lessing

Middle age is the

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

Thanks to modern medical

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. Dave Barry

You can only be

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. Dave Barry

The man smiled at

The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transciencies. Above all a knowing deep in the … Read more

Old age and youth

Old age and youth cannot live together. Christina Stead