Aging Quote by Jessamyn West

there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.

— Margaret Mead

“The young have aspirations that never comes to pass,the old have reminiscences of what never happened. It's only the middle-aged who are really conscious…

— Saki

“It is because the young cannot recognize the youth of the aged, and the old will not acknowledge the experience of the young, that…

— George MacDonald

Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have…

— Carl Rogers

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

The beautiful thing about older people is their ability to cut the fat off of conversation. When they talk, they don't go on forever…

— Bill Cosby

The young should not think of themselves as immature and the elderly need not view themselves as feeble. Our minds control our bodies. Have…

— Anonymous

I don't talk to old people; they try to find ways to stay static. Young folks are the ones with the ideas and constantly…

— Prince

People are reluctant to talk about old age and death because they are afraid of emotion, and they willingly avoid the things they feel…

— Paul Tournier

Many older people I know are focused on the past. When they talk about the future, they are, quite understandably, preoccupied with the hassles…

— Bari Weiss

Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions a youth…

— Louise J. Kaplan

Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own…

— Anonymous