"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
More by Oscar Wilde
“Art persists, it timelessly continues.”
“The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.”
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
More on Age
“In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.”
“Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.”
“While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung.”