“The young don’t know what age is, and the old forget what youth was.” — Seumas MacManus, Heavy Hangs the Golden Grain
Tag: age
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“I don’t want to fight old age but I am not going to invite it to live in either. I want a nice symbiotic relationship with it where we are totally unaware of each other.” — Betty White, Betty White in Person
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“No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.” — Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
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“Mocking the wisdom that comes with age is a fit sport only for those who expect never to attain much of it themselves.” — Iain Banks, Inversions
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“Age does not bring wisdom, Ben, but it does give perspective.” — Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
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“In sum, once I was twenty and not so young, now I’m sixty inclined on the young side.” — Bernard Malamud, The Art of Fiction No. 52, the Paris Review (Spring 1975)
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“From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.” — W. Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale
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“We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.” — W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge
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“Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.” — David Foster Wallace, Commencement speech, 2005 graduating class, Kenyon College
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“Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.” — Tom Stoppard, Where Are They Now?
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