Age Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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

Everything has its place and time. We men of the nineteen-forties can smile at the mistakes of the nineteen-thirties, and, in turn, the men…

— Lin Yutang

“All the older men are linked up with their previous life. They have wives, children, occupations, and interests, they have a background which is…

— Erich Maria Remarque

Age's terms of peace, after the long interlude of war with life, have still to be concluded-Youth must keep decently away-so many old wounds…

— Eugene O'Neill

Young people, especially young men due to culture and perhaps testosterone, dream about changing the world, making an impact, doing big things. Now our…

— Garry Kasparov

There is something in the ardour and ingenousness of youth, which is particularly pleasing to the contemplation of an old man, if his feelings…

— Ann Radcliffe

What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those…

— Victor Hugo

There were so many ways to be twenty-six years old.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“In my generation we did a lot of pleasure chasing—we, the generation responsible for today’s twenty-year-olds and thirty-year-olds and forty-year-olds. Before they came into…

— Sidney Poitier

It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to…

— Nelson Rockefeller