Quotes 1221 till 1240 of 1253.
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Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.
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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.
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Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.
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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
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Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
Published in Oregonian newspaper on 31 December 1958, in the Column of Vaughan -
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.
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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?
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[The Western Colonial system] shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbour in the end.
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[When told that he was making more than the president of the United States Herbert Hoover in 1930:] I had a better year than he did.
Boston Globe, Will Rogers Dispatch by Will Rogers, January 9, 1930 -
A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
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By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death ... and let it go which way it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next.
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Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
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Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
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