Quotes 801 till 820 of 825.
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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.
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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 -
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
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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?
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Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
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[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.
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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.
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A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.
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A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
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Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
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Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.
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I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters.
Speech Sioux Center, Iowa, januari 2016
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