Quotes with youth-obsessed

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  • William Somerset Maugham Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Herbert Hoover Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • George Gordon On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
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  • J. B. Priestley One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
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  • Virginia Woolf One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • E. M. Forster Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Adam Arkin People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Henry Giles People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.
    Henry Giles
    British Unitarian minister and writer (1809 - 1882)
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  • Mick Jagger People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.
    Mick Jagger
    English singer-songwriter, composer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Thomas Arnold Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
    Thomas Arnold
    English educator and historian (1795 - 1842)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • John Dryden Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Claude M. Bristol Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.
    Claude M. Bristol
    American writer
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  • Christina Rossetti She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
    Christina Rossetti
    British poet (1830 - 1894)
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