Quotes with mature-age

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  • Joseph Addison Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; I old age is slow in both.
    Cato
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • William Shakespeare Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Carolyn Wells Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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  • Garson Kanin Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
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  • Anne Bradstreet Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
    Anne Bradstreet
    English American poet (1612 - 1672)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Bill Vaughan Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
    Published in Oregonian newspaper on 31 December 1958, in the Column of Vaughan
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Walt Whitman Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Sir John Denham Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
    Sir John Denham
    Anglo-Irish poet and courtier (1615 - 1669)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Babe Ruth [Written by Ruth in a St. Mary's hymnal, at the age of fifteen:] George H Ruth World's worse singer, world's best pitcher.
    Inscription in hymnbook
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Bob Keeshan A child needs to be listened to and talked to at 3 and 4 and 5 years of age. Parents should not wait for the sophisticated conversation of a teenager.
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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  • William Shakespeare A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Childhood: The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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