Quotes 921 till 940 of 951.
-
Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
-
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.
-
Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.
-
Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.
-
Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.
-
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.
-
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
-
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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?
-
[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.
-
A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.
-
A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
-
Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
-
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-
Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
-
Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
All old-guard famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 47)
