Youth-Age

Believe me, all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them. (Jean Anouilh)

In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but interest, and to lose shame without substituting virtue. (Samuel Johnson)

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity. (W Somerset Maugham)

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. (Bible)

All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth; and none, or almost none, for the disenchantments of age. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age. Manhood is...the ripe and fertile season of action, when alone we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute. (Charles Caleb)

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. (Longfellow)

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth. (Richard Steele)