Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
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Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
HOSEA BALLOU Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO Some have the wisdom of old age and the energy of youth. Most have the wisdom of youth, and the ener...
UNKNOWN Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.
UNKNOWN Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
ANNE BRADSTREET Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
ALFRED VIGNY Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
ALFRED VICTOR VIGNY The defects of our youth sustain us in old age.
MARTY RUBIN في شبابنا نريد أن نغير العالم .. في شيخوختنا نريد أن نغي�...
أنيس منصور Cherish youth, but trust old age.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdo...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all ...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the in...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.
UNKNOWN Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.
ROBINSON JEFFERS The heads of strong old age are beautiful / Beyond all grace of youth
ROBINSON JEFFERS Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.
PROVERB Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance
FRENCH PROVERB Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
FREDRICH The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning, you’re not ...
ROSALYN S. YALOW When you're young, the question is "What can you do for me?" and when you're old the question is "Wh...
JIM GENOVESE As we grow old the vigour of youth is exchanged for life experience and wisdom.
JIM GENOVESE That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know every...
NEIL GAIMAN The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
DEMOCRITUS Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill
PROVERB If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
PROVERB If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
FRENCH PROVERB Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.
MARK TWAIN Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
DAVID MAMET Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age
ANDRE GIDE Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
ARISTOTLE We both young what made you grow younger."
"The music?"
He nodded and whispered. "You don'...
DAVID AGRANOFF As the body grows in youth, so does wisdom in old age.
JIM GENOVESE Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
JOHANN VON GOETHE He who wants to warm himself in old age must build a fireplace in his youth
GERMAN PROVERB Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
LACTANTIUS Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.
LACTANTIUS FIRMIANUS Many people use their youth to make their old age miserable
PROVERB Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.
LACTANTIUS FIRMIANUS Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age
LACTANTIUS Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in ...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in ...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Seeing a person gracefully adorning old age garment,you've seen a person who has persisted from yout...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasance, age full of care; Youth like...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Too young to care; Too old to change.
HAFSA SHAH A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
MARY ALICE MESSENGER Young people don't know what age is, and old people forget what youth was
PROVERB Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable ...
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
JOSH BILLINGS In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.
JEAN PAUL In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
BEVERLY SILLS Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolish
MARK TWAIN Her father protects ,her in childhood, her husband protects ,her in youth, and her sons protect ,her...
GURU NANAK As in this body, there are for the embodied one childhood, youth, old age, even so is there the taki...
THE DHAMMAPADA Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may...
WALT WHITMAN A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances ...
HESKETH PEARSON Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age ma...
WALT WHITMAN Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM There is an order
Of mortals on the earth, who do become
Old in their youth, and die ere middl...
UNKNOWN The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable
with interest about thirty years aft...
GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER" In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an un...
BRUCE CATTON The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and depende...
DOROTHY DIX In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
SOCRATES People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.
HENRY GILES In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.
JOSH BILLINGS A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melanchol...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melanchol...
MAURICE CHEVALIER A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancho...
LYDIA M. CHILD Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Don't mess with the old dogs... Age and skill will always overcome youth and treachery!
BS and brill...
RODERICK ROTOL One of the most difficult aspect of old age is,how to divorce ourselves from the unhealthy foods we ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The Little Boy and the Old Man
Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon."
Sai...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise
MARK TWAIN As in this body, there are for the embodied one childhood, youth, old age, even so is there the taki...
THE BHAGAVAD GITA In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.
POPE PAUL VI The work trains the youth. I have a start of old age ... (Le travail forme la jeunesse. - J'ai un d�...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty o...
ISAAC D'ISRAELI The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading,
imparts the vivacity and novelty ...
ISAAC D'ISRAELI For age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the ev...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
HERBERT HOOVER The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young
OSCAR WILDE By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your ...
MARYA MANNES When your youth is about to enter in old age it shouldn't wonder, what happened? it must say, well d...
AMIT KALANTRI In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
NIKITA IVANOVICH PANIN In childhood, instincts dictate the behavior; in youth, hormones goad the behavior and; in old age, ...
DR HITESH C SHETH In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
POPE PAUL VI Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support t...
BIAS The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young "sow wild oats," but when old, grow sage. ...
H. J. BYRON Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate -...
CAROLYN WELLS Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate -...
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