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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.
