"At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age"

"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions"

"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end"

"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"

"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile"

"Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth"

"No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation"

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

"You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned"

"I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old"

"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured"