Fancy Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young…

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

“age does not bring wisdom. Often it merely changes simple stupidity into arrogant conceit. Its only advantage, so far as I have been able…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish.

— Bette Lord

Youngsters lack wisdom; elders lack energy! When wisdom and energy comes to gather, great things are destined to happen!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The Canarsie People said the knowing belongs to the old and wise, but the unfolding is in the keeping of the young. The old…

— Beverly Swerling

The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia…

— Robertson Davies

Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age.

— Brian Jacques

... it is one of the gains of advancing age that the good of young creatures becomes a more definite intense joy to us.…

— George Eliot

Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the…

— George Santayana

True wisdom, indeed, springs from the wide brain which is fed from the deep heart; and it is only when age warms its withering…

— Edwin Percy Whipple