"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."

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"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

William James, American Philosopher

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"If youth knew; if age could."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

Age, Youth

"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Age, Forget, Invention

"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

Willa Cather, American Author

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"Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured."

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"Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind."

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"Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood."

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"The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."

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"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."

"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

"If youth knew; if age could."

"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

"Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin."

"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."

"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."

"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

"Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little."

Explore more quotes by Stanislaw Lec

"Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured."

"Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind."

"Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood."

"The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."

"Value your words. Each one may be the last."

"Never lie when the truth is more profitable."

"The first requisite for immortality is death."

"Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody."

"You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience."

"Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing."