Quotes with old-age

Quotes 1321 till 1340 of 1369.

  • Augustus Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
    Augustus
    Roman emperor (63 - 14)
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  • Busy Philipps Your first pregnancy you have nothing to do except sleep and take care of yourself and go to prenatal yoga or whatever. Now I have a full-time job, I have a four-year-old, I've got a life that is demanding my attention, so I've gone to prenatal yoga once. It's such a bummer.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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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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  • William Shakespeare Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Francis Picabia Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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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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  • Natalie Clifford Barney Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Garson Kanin Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
    Garson Kanin
     
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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.
    Source: 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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  • Oscar Wilde 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.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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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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  • Barbara Ward [The Western Colonial system] shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbour in the end.
    Barbara Ward
    British economist
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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.
    Source: 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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