Accompany Quote by Benjamin Franklin

There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.

— Benjamin Franklin

Youth was so mercilessly hard in its decisions; it had its own unyielding standards and had not yet learned enough to know that time…

— Winston Graham

The age of discretion is the age of impotence.

— Anonymous

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

— William Godwin

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

— Georg Simmel

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of…

— Jean de la Bruyere

For life in general, there is but one decree; youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

— Benjamin Disraeli

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

— Pope Paul VI

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

— V. S. Pritchett

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

— Walter Scott