“The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything”
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“The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything”
“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children”
“In youth we learn; in age we understand”
“Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt”
“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age”
“Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay”
“No wise man ever wished to be younger”
“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.”
“To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.”
“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children”
“There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course”
“If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes”
“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
“We pay when old for the excesses of youth”
“Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it”
“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions”
“Age considers; youth ventures”
“Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor ”
“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young ”
“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age”