The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age.
People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.
How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!
Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.
As I get older, it's a time to enjoy life.
I'm as old as I am, and I don't try to hide it. It's not a big deal.
How old are you? I asked her. "Old enough to know better." she said.
Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.
What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.
All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.
Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong.
The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong.
The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.
I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead.
But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.
One advantage of getting older is knowing when to worry.
There's nothing good about being my age.
youth looks at its world and age looks through it; youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it, while age can, with luck, achieve a cosmic private harmony unsuited for action as a rule.
We are who we are. People who are older have the advantage of more experience. But you don't have to despair just because you're young. If young age is the problem, you can take comfort in the fact that it gets better with each passing day.
There is no fool like an old fool.
A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.
The things that you know intellectually when you're young become internalized as you get older. You realize all those clichés.
