Ashes Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray

“Maybe it is because I am an old man, but I find, Mr. Poirot, that there is something about the defencelessness of youth that…

— Agatha Christie

Being young you have not known The fool's triumph, nor yet Love lost as soon as won, Nor the best labourer dead And all…

— William Butler Yeats

A graceful and blessed old age must have three elements in it: a happy retrospect, a peaceful present, and an inspiring future. And old…

— Lyman Abbott

“Youth is the only season for enjoyment, and the first twenty-five years of one's life are worth all the rest of the longest life…

— George Borrow

“Maybe it is because I am an old man, but I find, M. Poirot, that there is something about the defenselessness of youth that…

— Agatha Christie

We age inevitably: The old joys fade and are gone: And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.

— James Oppenheim

“He is not, perhaps, overjoyed—but joy is not a characteristic of my people; it is considered too youthful, and therefore, too easily destroyed.”

— Michelle Sagara

“It is the juices of youth, the joy and gladness carried along through the busy years that make old age tolerable.”

— Orison Swett Marden

“Youth is a marvelous garment. How misplaced is the sympathy lavished on adolescents. There is a yet more difficult age which comes later, when…

— Iris Murdoch

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

— Anonymous

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

— W. Somerset Maugham

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