Youth And Old Age Quotes

Youth And Old Age Quotes by William Wordsworth, James M. Barrie, Sheila Kaye-Smith, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Lucille Ball, Coco Chanel and many others.

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.
William Wordsworth
I am not young enough to know everything.
James M. Barrie
I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little.
Sheila Kaye-Smith
A man’s age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Coco Chanel
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Francis Bacon
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
W. Somerset Maugham
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Jonathan Swift
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Herman Melville
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
H. H. Asquith
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. Rowling
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
Mark Twain
Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow