Wyndham Lewis Quotes

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

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

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

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.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age.

The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.

Being seventy is not a sin.

I have a wonderful respect for old people.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.