I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day and thinks to please by its old graces it is only an object of ridicule.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret in my chilled age certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

Elizabeth Peyton the artist known for tiny dazzling portraits of radiant youth is now painting tiny dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.

There was no respect for youth when I was young and now that I am old there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going.

Invention is the talent of youth as judgment is of age.

Interest is the spur of the people but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth and judgment of age.

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry I was listening to European classical music.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

The stars shall fade away the sun himself Grow dim with age and nature sink in years But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth Unhurt amidst the wars of elements The wrecks of matter and the crush of worlds.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

In my youth I stressed freedom and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom innocence with understanding and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

Old age has its pleasures which though different are not less than the pleasures of youth.