Quotes 1761 till 1780 of 1807.
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Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
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Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; I old age is slow in both.
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Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
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Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
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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.
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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
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Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.
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Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.
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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.
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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.
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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
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Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
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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! 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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[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.
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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 great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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