In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
The days are long, but the years are short.
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.