Best Young And Old Quotes

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

I’m with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can’t characterize them any better than that.

And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the checkered shade. And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday.

I am not young enough to know everything.

He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group of human beings enjoying its existence.

For a bag of pepper, they could cut each other’s throats without hesitation, and would forswear their souls… The bizarre obstinacy of that desire made them defy death in a thousand shapes; the unknown seas, the loathsome diseases; wounds, captivity, hunger, pestilence and despair. It made them great! By heavens! It made them heroic; and it made them pathetic, too, in their craving for trade with the inflexible death levying its toll on young and old

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

Beautiful old people are works of art.

That’s just like America. It’s made up of lots of different people. We’re all different colors, different ages, we do different jobs — but it takes all of us black people, white people, brown people, men and women, young and old, working in the factories, working in the fields, working in offices, working in stores — it takes a lot of different kinds of people to get the job done for America.

Busy work brings after ease; Ease brings sport and sport brings rest; For young and old, of all degrees, The mingled lot is best.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

You’re only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans – young and old – a second chance.

For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old.

Strange times are these, in which we live, forsooth ;When young and old are taught in Falsehood’s school:–And the man who dares to tell the truth,Is called at once a lunatic and fool.

Age isn’t how old you are but how old you feel.

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

It is important that karate can be practiced by the young and old, men and women alike. That is, since there is no need for a special training place, equipment, or an opponent, a flexibility in training is provided such that the physically and spiritually weak individual can develop his body and mind so gradually and naturally that he himself may not even realize his own great progress.

You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.

I still think funny, and people young and old still come and see me. That’s flattering. The day comes that they stop coming, then I’ll know that it’s time to retire to the Jewish ranch.

And I was to find out then, as I found out so many times, over and over again, that women especially are social beings, who are not content with just husband and family, but must have a community, a group, an exchange with others. A child is not enough. A husband and children, no matter how busy one may be kept by them, are not enough. Young and old, even in the busiest years of our lives, we women especially are victims of the long loneliness.

She – philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.

I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get together for a formal family photograph.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

Every person, young and old, has had his own personal experience with falling. Falling is what we mortals do. But as long as we are willing to rise up again and continue on the path toward the spiritual goals God has given us, we can learn something from failure and become better and happier as a result. My dear friends, no matter how many times you have slipped or fallen, rise up! Your destiny is a glorious one! Stand tall and walk in the light of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ! You are stronger than you realize. You are more capable than you can imagine. You can do it now!

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.

All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father’s friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father’s secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn’t know they were there.

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

I had a very down-to-earth product, my wrap dress, which was really a uniform. It was just a simple little cotton-jersey dress that everybody loved and everybody wore. That one dress sold about 3 or 4 million. I would see 20, 30 dresses walking down one block. All sorts of different women. It felt very good. Young and old, and fat and thin, and poor and rich.

A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on ‘All My Children’ when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies’ necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.