Wisdom in the young is as unattractive as frivolity in the elderly.

Young people suffer less from their faults than from the prudence of the old.

the confidence of youth counts for little against the cunning of age.

Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

The old often envy the young; when they do, they are apt to treat them cruelly.

The young have the ability, but lack the wisdom, and the old have the wisdom, but lack the ability.

The old and the young, he thought. The old, who do not care; the young, who do not think.

Wisdom is wasted on the old, and youth is wasted on the young.

4693. The older a Fool is, the worse he is.

It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.

The young feel sorrows much more sharply that the old; the latter are nearer the safety exit.

Indeed it is not usual for the young to grieve.

It crossed his mind that maybe one of the most telling differences between the young and the old lay in this detail. As you aged you cared less and less about what others thought of you, and only then could you be more free.