“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
“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young”
Oscar Wilde
“Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.”
Maurice Chevalier
“In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.”
Beverly Sills
“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.”
Victor Hugo
“Old age is no place for sissies.”
Bette Davis