There was no respect for youth when I was young and now that I am old there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going.

Invention is the talent of youth as judgment is of age.

Interest is the spur of the people but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth and judgment of age.

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry I was listening to European classical music.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

The stars shall fade away the sun himself Grow dim with age and nature sink in years But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth Unhurt amidst the wars of elements The wrecks of matter and the crush of worlds.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

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.