Quotes with coming-of-age

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  • Aristotle Education is the best provision for old age.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Lydia M. Child A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Anais Nin Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Henry Allen It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
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  • Albert Einstein Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.
    Dylan Thomas
    English poet (1914 - 1953)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Maggie Kuhn Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
    Maggie Kuhn
    American activist (1905 - 1995)
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  • Maggie Kuhn Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
    Maggie Kuhn
    American activist (1905 - 1995)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Lawana Blackwell Age is no guarantee of maturity.
    Lawana Blackwell
    English writer
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  • Groucho Marx Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Blind Lemon Jefferson Back water rising, coming in my windows and doors I leave with a prayer in my heart: back water won't rise no more
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  • Paul Klee Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Henry David Thoreau If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Jonathan Swift If men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Peter Cochrane Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who can not, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
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