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Swelling words of high-flown might
Mightily the gods do smite.
Chastisement for errors past
Wisdom brings to age at last.
Sophocles496–406 BCAntigone (c. 441 BC), spoken by ChorusIn context
- Pride
- Wisdom
If I could offer one piece of advice to young people thinking about their future, it would be this: Don’t preconceive. Find out what the opportunities are.
Thomas Sowellborn 1930Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)
- Advice
- Youth
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
Gertrude Stein1874–1946Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (22 May 1925), published in Fitzgerald’s The Crack-Up (1945)
- Change
If anything is a surprise then there is not much difference between older and younger because the only thing that does make anybody older is that they cannot be surprised.
Gertrude Stein1874–1946Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 2
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
Gloria Steinem1934–2026Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983), p. 377
- Women
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
Adlai Stevenson II1900–1965Speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (8 October 1952)
Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
- Youth
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
- Life & Death
The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.
Max Stirner1806–1856The Ego and Its Own (1844), Cambridge 1995 ed., pp. 61-62
- Education
- Youth
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard1937–2025
How can you say young girls don’t get it? They’re our future. Our future doctors, lawyers, mothers, presidents, they kind of keep the world going.
Harry Stylesborn 1994Interview by Cameron Crowe in Rolling Stone (18 April 2017)
- Women
- Youth
Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 24
- Beauty
Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 55
Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892Ulysses (1842)In context
- Life & Death
- Motivation & Goals