"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

Age, Old, Prudence, Youth

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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

"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Age, Time, Old

"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

"Not even old age knows how to love death."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Age, Death, Love, Old

"No lie ever reaches old age."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Age, Lie, Old

"At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me."

Barnaby C. Keeney, American Educator

Age, People, College, Hell

"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

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"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."

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"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil."

Wisdom

"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends."

Friendship

"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."

Books

"Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive."

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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."

"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."

"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."

"Not even old age knows how to love death."

"No lie ever reaches old age."

"At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me."

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

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"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."

"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil."

"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends."

"A home without books is a body without soul."

"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."

"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."

"Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?"

"Never injure a friend, even in jest."

"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."

"Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive."