Advancing Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

— Winifred Holtby

I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before…

— Aeschylus

Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of…

— Henrik Ibsen

In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there…

— Jane Addams

I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if…

— David Walker

Ever since time began (when was that, I wonder?), it's been moving ever forward without a moment's rest. And one of the privileges given…

— Haruki Murakami

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the…

— Philip Pullman

The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.

— Catherynne M. Valente

This is a deeply uncanny and very troubling development, it exists, and it wants to take us back. It wants to take us, I…

— Mark Crispin Miller

When a child becomes an adult . . . the elders are fearful. And for good reason . . . not we but they…

— Louise J. Kaplan