It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
What though youth gave love and roses Age still leaves us friends and wine.
In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As fail.
Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more - the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men.
Reckless youth makes rueful age.
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
Youth will be served.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
Yes, you may depend upon it he has the ability! He is the younger generation that stands ready to knock at my door - to make an end of Halvard Solness.
Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes; they turn, Like marigolds, toward the sunny side.
All the world's a mass of folly, Youth is gay, age melancholy: Youth is spending, age is thrifty, Mad at twenty, cold at fifty; Man is nought but folly's slave, From the cradle to the grave.
Your old men shall dream dreams; your young men shall see visions.
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams With its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow; Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so.
If youth but knew, and age were able, Then poverty would be a fable.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
