"Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age."

Age, Talent, People, Glory

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"Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age."

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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

Age, Absurdity, May

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

Willa Cather, American Author

Age, Writer

"A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age."

Chuck Klosterman, American Critic

Age, Months

"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Age, Belief, Disguise

"The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them thus preserving the system."

Quentin Crewe, British Journalist

Age, Children, Parents

"The surest sign of age is loneliness."

Annie Dillard, American Author

Age, Loneliness

"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Age, Genius, Enthusiasm, Losing

"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Age, Burden, Memories, Old

"We are always the same age inside."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

Age,

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"I always love to begin a journey on Sundays because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land or by water."

Spiritual

"Yet, Malice never was his Aim;He lash'd the Vice but spar'd the Name. No individual could resent,Where thousands equally were meant. His Satry points at no Defect, But what all Mortals may correct...Verses on the death of Dr Swift."

Justice

"He likewise directed, "that every senator in the great council of a nation, after he had delivered his opinion, and argued in the defence of it, should be obliged to give his vote directly contrary; because if that were done, the result would infallibly terminate in the good of the public."

Politics

"Very few men properly speaking live at present but are providing to live another time."

Future

"111 company is like a dog who dirts those most whom he loves best."

Saying

"When I am reading a book whether wise or silly it seems to me to be alive and talking to me."

Reading

"And he gave it for his opinion that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together."

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"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."

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

"A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age."

"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

"The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them thus preserving the system."

"The surest sign of age is loneliness."

"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm."

"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

"We are always the same age inside."

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"Better belly burst than good liquor be lost."

"Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride."

"She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth."

"I always love to begin a journey on Sundays because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land or by water."

"Yet, Malice never was his Aim;He lash'd the Vice but spar'd the Name. No individual could resent,Where thousands equally were meant. His Satry points at no Defect, But what all Mortals may correct...Verses on the death of Dr Swift."

"He likewise directed, "that every senator in the great council of a nation, after he had delivered his opinion, and argued in the defence of it, should be obliged to give his vote directly contrary; because if that were done, the result would infallibly terminate in the good of the public."

"Very few men properly speaking live at present but are providing to live another time."

"111 company is like a dog who dirts those most whom he loves best."

"When I am reading a book whether wise or silly it seems to me to be alive and talking to me."

"And he gave it for his opinion that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together."