Jessamyn West Quotes

Youth is wasted on the young.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

We do not attend to the advice of the sage and experienced because we think they are old, forgetting that they once were young and placed in the same situations as ourselves.

Nobody under 55 knows anything much about life. Nobody under 30 knows anything.

I'm not a get-off-my-lawn guy. I embrace the new generation.

If you're 30, 40 years old, you're not getting listened to by minors.

Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

The younger generation gives me more respect than I could ever hope for.

When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever.

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

I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for women to care.

As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.

I'm 40 next year and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses.

I've always been told I had an old face. So when I was in my 20s, I never got to play a teenager.

It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

People have always said I have an old soul, and all my best friends are 10 to 15 years my senior.

I think I'm so old I'm in. We call it the 'Tony Bennett Syndrome.' For some reason, young people think I'm cool.

I feel I can really relate to a lot of young people.

I always had an easier time with adults. Somehow, I was always old! I still feel old.