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Nature is full of freeks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then a young heart beating under fourscore winters.
Emerson
Advice when most needed is least heeded.
John Ray
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice, when they will not so much as take warning?
Swift
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde
Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it.
PubliliusSyrus
Bad counsel confounds the adviser.
AulusGellius
Those who give base counsel to cautious men lose their labour.
Phaedrus
Ask counsel of both times; of the ancient times what is best; and of the latter time what is fittest.
Francis Bacon
When all is done, the help of good counsel is that which setteth business straight.
Francis Bacon
When a man seeks your advice, he generally wants your praise.
Lord Chesterfield
A fool sometimes gives a weighty suggestion.
Boileau
Who cannot give good counsel? T’is cheap, it costs them nothing.
Robert Burton
Good but rarely came from good advice
Byron
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Lord Chesterfield
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Swift
Let age approve of youth, and death complete the same!
Robert Browning
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
Edmund Burke
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
George Chapman
Old the proverb, old, but true : Age should think, and youth should do.
D’Arcy Thompson
The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind.
Mortimer Collins
If within the old man there is not a young man, within the sophisticated, one unsophisticated, then—he is but one of the devil’s angels.
H. D. Thoreau
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle;
Old Age a regret:
Benjamin Disraeli
The blunders of youth are preferable to the triumphs of manhood, or the success of old age:
Benjamin Disraeli
Youth is everywhere in place. Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.
Emerson
If I were a man and a young man,
And knew what I know today.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Youth lives on hope, old age remembrance.
Unknown
The conversation of the old and the young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
Samuel Johnson
Where old age is evil youth can learn no good.
John Ray
Youth is the proper time for love,
And age is virtues’ season.
George Granvill
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
George Santayana
Age may have one side, but assuredly youth has the other. There is nothing certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong.
R.L. Stevenson
A fully, busy youth is your only prelude to a self-contained and independent age; and the muff inevitably develops into the -bore.
R.L. Stevenson
To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Amiel
Age is like love, it cannot be hid.
Thomas Dekker
Few envy the consideration enjoyed by the oldest inhabitant.
Emerson
We do not count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
Emerson
All would live long, but none would be old.
Benjamin Franklin
Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason; their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.
Jonathan Swift
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken
That ends this strange, eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Shakespeare
