It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Aristotle

I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.
Erma Bombeck

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
Henry David Thoreau

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
Mae West

I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Oscar Wilde

Those whom the gods love grow young.
Oscar Wilde

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
Ernest Hemingway

I see what keeps people young: work!
Ted Turner

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford

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.
Martin Luther

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
Sigmund Freud

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.
Walt Whitman

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Walt Whitman

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
Anne Frank

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
Charles de Gaulle

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
William Osler

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
Jane Austen