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Young Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.
- We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
- When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a…
- It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they…
- From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this…
- When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
- Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
- The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
- When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am…
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- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve.… — Neil Armstrong
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
- You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill… — Margaret Atwood