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Old vs. young4 quotes
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'. — Bob Dylan · 1965The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Older men declare war. But it is youth who must fight and die. — Herbert Hoover · 1944From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture. — W. Somerset Maugham · 1930Change1 quote
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'. — Bob Dylan · 1965Old age1 quote
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. — Oscar Wilde · 1890The 60s1 quote
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'. — Bob Dylan · 1965War1 quote
Older men declare war. But it is youth who must fight and die. — Herbert Hoover · 1944Wisdom1 quote
From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture. — W. Somerset Maugham · 1930Youth1 quote
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. — Oscar Wilde · 1890