Aging Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment…

— Maya Angelou

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you…

— Casey Stengel

When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that you never…

— I. F. Stone

Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

— Anthony Powell

If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It…

— W. H. Auden

The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless and prying…

— Mary Baker Eddy

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The most tragic error into which older people can fall is one that is common among educators and politicians. It is to use youth…

— Shirley Chisholm

We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the…

— Alice Walker

Young persons, because of their immaturity, may not fully comprehend the consequences of their actions and should therefore benefit from less severe sanctions than…

— Mary Robinson

If the youth has a good foundation, then I think they won't grow into the bad situations they get into.

— Ed Reed

But would the young do any better under the same circumstances? Will they do any better when their turns come? The answer is that…

— Louis O. Kelso