Quotes 121 till 140 of 254.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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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.
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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
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Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
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Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
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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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One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
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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.
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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.
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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.
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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.
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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.
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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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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.
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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.
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Since the pharmaceuticals don't make any money and they control the doctors. If the doctors don't make any money then all hell breaks loose. In communities like LA and New York they are using a lot of the youth for a test sight.
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Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: ''Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.''
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