"Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age."

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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book."

John Pople, English Scientist

Age, Class, End, Interest

"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

Norman Douglas, British Writer

Age, Character, Man

"It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Age, Censure, Folly, Man

"When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age."

Tim McGraw, American Musician

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"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"If youth knew; if age could."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes."

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"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."

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"Write something, even if it's just a suicide note."

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"Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent."

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"All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world."

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"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent."

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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

"I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids."

"The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age."

"At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book."

"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

"It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution."

"When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age."

"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age."

"If youth knew; if age could."

Explore more quotes by Gore Vidal

"The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes."

"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."

"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."

"Write something, even if it's just a suicide note."

"Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent."

"All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world."

"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent."

"Never have children, only grandchildren."

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"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies."