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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.
A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
senior meetings.
Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.
A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
The aging aren't only the old; the aging are all of us.
As child, when the elders spoke their wise words, it only echoes in my ears. As adult, I have crystal clear insight to the wise aphorisms by the elderly.
Young people must appreciate the beauty of old age. The old people were once young.
As an elder I mistrust the wisdom of age.
among the country's senior
Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.
The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.
Youngsters lack wisdom; elders lack energy! When wisdom and energy comes to gather, great things are destined to happen!
Now answer me, sincerely, honestly, who lives past forty? I'll tell you who does: fools and scoundrels.
Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.
Generally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age.
A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. Let us strive to enhance their capacity to support themselves for as long as possible and, when they cannot do so anymore, to care for them.
Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee.
Youth is immortal; Tis the elderly only grow old!
The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.
We may be aware of small increments of getting older; we may meet an increasing number of people who make us uneasy with their youth; but the fact of being old ourselves comes as a surprise, and is often accompanied by the belief that there has been some mistake.
There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.
Blessed is the society with elderly souls.
Now they were old.
Old enough.
A viable, die-able age.
In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.
Long live the Halflings! Praise them with great praise!
It is gracious to have old people full of vitality and endowed with wisdom in our society.
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.
Older people are wise not only because they have lived longer. They're wise because they have lost more.
Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young, erode. We end up belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself. [p. 66]
Old folks are the nation.
There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.Age-- Carol Grace
Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day.
Very like leaves upon this earth are the generations of men - old leaves, cast on the ground by wind, young leaves the greening forest bears when spring comes in. So mortals pass; one generation flowers even as another dies away.
Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.
Do not dismiss the words of the old;
they possess wisdom,
which comes only with age,
and often speak of things
that the young are too immature
to understand.
The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.
Of all children how can the children of God be old?
As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.
Wisdom of the ages you seek, lad? I offer but one word: treasure. At what price does this treasure come, you ask, for not all does silver and gold make? If it be treasure you seek then you are a pirate!
Adults are obsolete children.
Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people.
Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? Youth? That is long ago. We are old folk.
Young men preen. Old men scheme.
Blessed are the elderly men and women.
A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age.
With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.
The glory of the elderly is their insight to life.
Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders.
Changelings are fish you're supposed to throw back. A cuckoo raised by sparrows. They don't quite fit anywhere. (pg. 134)
The younger generation gives me more respect than I could ever hope for.
Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations
But even grown-ups have elders who know better.
Adults are only obsolete children.
How naive and foolish the young are to imagine that they understand the loneliness of great age, the outliving of your contemporaries, anyone to whom your century of memory might make any sense.
For to be yong I wald not, for my wis, Off all this warld to mak me lord and king: The more of age, the nerar hevynnis blis.
An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding.
With years a richer life begins, the spirit mellow: ripe age gives tones to violins, wine, and good fellows.
Age is a seasoned trickster. To our parents, we will always be children. Within ourselves, the same yearnings of youth; the same aspirations of adolescence, will last a lifetime. Only to the young - blinded by our grey hair and slowing gait - do we appear old and increasingly beyond the pale.
There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.
Old men make war, young men fight and die
What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
The young, in their innocence, are often wise and capable of teaching the old.
I'm growing old, Ernest, and I find myself enjoying the company of young men more and more.
Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
grandmothers. Elephants
When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.
Youth may outrun the old, but not outwit.
Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
It is true what people say, the young have the ability, but lack the wisdom, and the old have the wisdom, but lack the ability.
Old men ought to be explorers.
What would killing the Elders result in?"
"Panic? Fear? Three empty parking spaces in the Sanctuary?
I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.
We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion. Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something, due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.
Yes, that's the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? That is long ago. We are old folk.
There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.
Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.
The old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion; and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.
Do not be too sure, young fellows,
That you are better than your ancestors.
I love looking at you, hundred-year-old tree, loaded with shoots and boughs as though you were a stripling. Teach me the secret of growing old like you, open to life, to youth, to dreams, as somebody aware that youth and age are merely steps towards eternity.
Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it.
What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind's breath?
Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.
The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known.
Youth hates age, age loves youth.
Youth, Day, Old Age and Night Youth, large, lusty, loving - youth full of grace, force, fascination, Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
Old men make wars that young men may die.
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
The young ones have always a claim on the old to help them forward.
Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.
woe of unnumbered generations