918 – “Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”

-Albus Dumbledore in J K Rowling’s Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix

874 – “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.”

–John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton

842 – “Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.”

–Albus Dumbledore in J K Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

625 – “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

–C S Lewis

596 – “All that is gold does not glitter…”

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”

– J R R Tolkien

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214 – “Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”

–Franz Kafka [attributed]