Age Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image “The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Believe Young Youth
“Young believes everything, middle-aged suspects everything , old knows everything” — Adnan Qasem Copy Share Image
The new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities and scholars… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
“At some point in youth an old person will tell you a harsh truth you will not believe, in middle age you will realize… — C.A.A. Savastano Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do — French Proverb Copy Share Image
The film argues to the young that the old were young once, too, and contain within them all that the young know, and more. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
When you get real old, honey, you realize there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table.… — Sarah Louise Delany Copy Share Image
Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image