If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.


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If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO
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
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
Some have the wisdom of old age and the energy of youth. Most have the wisdom of youth, and the ener...
UNKNOWN
Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.
MARK TWAIN
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
ANNE BRADSTREET
If youth but knew; if age but could.
HENRI ESTIENNE
Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill
PROVERB
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
ARISTOTLE
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J.K. ROWLING
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J. K. ROWLING
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the in...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
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
Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.
UNKNOWN
The defects of our youth sustain us in old age.
MARTY RUBIN
Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
DAVID MAMET
Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be...
J.K. ROWLING
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM
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
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
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NEIL GAIMAN
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
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
As the body grows in youth, so does wisdom in old age.
JIM GENOVESE
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H. J. BYRON
Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all ...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning, you’re not ...
ROSALYN S. YALOW
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
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age
ANDRE GIDE
Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Don't mess with the old dogs... Age and skill will always overcome youth and treachery! BS and brill...
RODERICK ROTOL
He who wants to warm himself in old age must build a fireplace in his youth
GERMAN PROVERB
Many people use their youth to make their old age miserable
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
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FRANCIS BACON
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)
That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present
SYDNEY SMITH
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
Too young to care; Too old to change.
HAFSA SHAH
If youth knew; if age could.
SIGMUND FREUD
If youth knew; if age could.
HENRI ESTIENNE
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
If you are a 24-year-old man, you believe that old age begins about 55 [while] if you are a 62-year-...
DOMINIC ABRAMS
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss
MAYA ANGELOU
Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
FREDRICH
To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.
UNKNOWN
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
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WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
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WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
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 youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.
POPE PAUL VI
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
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
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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
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
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DR HITESH C SHETH
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Through wisdom your days will be many,
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ANONYMOUS
If youth knew; if age could. -Henri Estienne.
HENRI ESTIENNE
If youth only knew: if age only could.
HENRI ESTIENNE
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
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HESKETH PEARSON
Your youth is certainly finished and old age has definitely arrived if you feel that you are losing ...
AMIT KALANTRI
The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and depende...
DOROTHY DIX
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J.K. ROWLING
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BRANDON MULL
There is an order Of mortals on the earth, who do become Old in their youth, and die ere middl...
UNKNOWN
Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old or...
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
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 complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty o...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.
JOSH BILLINGS
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest about thirty years aft...
GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER"
Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
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