Alas Quote by John Dos Passos

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days,…

— Alexander Pope

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the importance of…

— Samuel Adams

“I'm really not quite as frippery a fellow as you seem to think! I own that in my grasstime I committed a great many…

— Georgette Heyer

“The young man pities his elders, fearing the day he, too, will join their ranks. The elderly man pities the younger generation, well-knowing the…

— Lynda I Fisher

“The beauty of collaboration between older and younger generations is that we combine strength with wisdom—a surefire way to accomplish more for the glory…

— Brett Harris

“The biggest challenge for a man is to attain the wisdom of 80 years of age in youth!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Longhorn sermon: two points with a whole lot of bull in between.”

— T.F. Tenney

There is no mortal man that is so much interested in the success of an elder when he is preaching the gospel as the…

— Lorenzo Snow

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

— Henry Adams

“Venerable age had not, for him, arranged that derelict landscape against which it is privileged to sit and pick its nose, break wind, and…

— William Gaddis

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

— Joseph Joubert