The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Age affects how people experience time.
The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.
To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
Old age and the passage of time teach all things.