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Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.
Herbert Hoover1874–1964Speech in Chicago, Illinois to the 23rd Republican national convention (27 June 1944)
- War & Peace
- Youth
You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Bob Hope1903–2003
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
Bob Hope1903–2003
Áh! ás the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you wíll weep and know why.
Gerard Manley Hopkins1844–1889Spring and Fall (1880)In context
- Emotion
I’ll say one thing about an oil boom; it will teach a kid that Life’s a pretty rotten thing as quick as anything I can think of.
Robert E. Howard1906–1936From a letter to Farnsworth Wright (c. Summer 1931)
- Life & Death
- Youth
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo1802–1885
- Youth
Jenny kiss’d me when we met,
Jumping from the chair she sat in;
Time, you thief, who love to get
Sweets into your list, put that in:
Say I’m weary, say I’m sad,
Say that health and wealth have miss’d me,
Say I’m growing old, but add,
Jenny kiss’d me.
Leigh Hunt1784–1859Jenny Kiss’d Me (1838)In context
- Love
Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
Washington Irving1783–1859Often credited to Victor Hugo
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving1783–1859Rip Van Winkle (1819), The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820), “Rip Van Winkle”In context
- Talking
I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
Lyndon B. Johnson1908–1973(28 July 1965)
- War & Peace
- Youth
The first years of man must make provision for the last.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Ch. XXVII
- Youth
He that would pass the latter part of life with honour and decency, must, when he is young, consider that he shall one day be old; and remember, when he is old, that he has once been young.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The Rambler (1750–1752), No. 50 (8 September 1750)
- Youth
One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
James Joyce1882–1941Dubliners (1914), “The Dead”In context
- Life & Death
Age does not always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.
Garrison Keillorborn 1942A Prairie Home Companion
- Wisdom
For a woman, forty is torture, the end. I think turning forty is miserable.
Grace Kelly1929–1982Kelly (1969) in interview with William B. Arthur. Cited in: James Spada (1988) Grace: The Secret Lives of a Princess. p. 280
- Women