“If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.”
French Proverb
“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young”
Oscar Wilde
“Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.”
Anne Bradstreet
“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.”
Victor Hugo
“I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.”
Voltaire
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
Mark Twain
“The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.”
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