Live as long as you may. The first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Quoted by Robert Southey How swift have flown To me thy girlish times, A woman grown beneath My heedless eyes! In vain I rack My fancy to believe The almanac, That speaks thee twenty-one. Quoted by Charles Lamb At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement. Quoted by Benjamin Franklin All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education. Quoted by Jean Jacques Rousseau Live as long as you may. The first twenty years are the longest half of your life. Quoted by Robert Southey Nature gives you the face you have at twenty, but it's up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. Quoted by Coco Chanel When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself. Quoted by F Scott Fitzgerald At the age of twenty, we don't care what the world thinks of us; at thirty, we worry about what it is thinking of us; at forty, we discover that it wasn't thinking of us at all. Anonymous A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. Quoted by Robert Frost A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating. Quoted by Arnold Bennet The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. Quoted by Muhammad Ali Through a dull tract of woe, of dread, The toiling year has pass'd and fled: And, lo! in sad and pensive strain, I sing my birthday date again. Quoted by George Crabbe |
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