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  • Groucho Marx You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I'll bet he was glad to get rid of it.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Samuel Johnson Young men have more virtue than old men, they have more generous sentiments in every respect.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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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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  • Homer Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • 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 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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