Aging Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have…

— Carl Rogers

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

Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do

— French Proverb

Old age makes us wiser and more foolish

— Russyb

Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young…

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly…

— Socrates

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

— George Bernard Shaw

When did Youth ever thank Age for its wisdom?

— Margaret Deland

I think I now understand why it is that the young are so very nostalgic. They have so little by way of personal history…

— Will Self

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

— Oscar Wilde

The older they get, the better they were when they were younger.

— Jim Bouton