The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

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 love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years… Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don’t have to riot.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear, and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses, he will endure or be forgotten.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

I think it’s good for a woman to put on a bit of weight when she gets older – it looks better. But a man has to stay balanced.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‚See if you can blow this out.‘

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Mastery, I learned, was not something genetic, or for a lucky few. It is something we can all attain if get rid of some misconceptions and gain clarity as to the required path.

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

I think when people make a record with a goal in mind – like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature – that gets in the way of writing great songs.

Genius, when young, is divine.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.

‚Unforgiven‘ is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, ‚This is great, but I’d like to do this when I’m older.‘ So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out.

As you get older, you’re not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn’t running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Medicines are only fit for old people.