Age Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.

— Mary Oliver

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

— Theodore Parker

I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get…

— Al Capone

The first duty of life is to live.

— Burt Lancaster

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

— Vaclav Havel

This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.

— Ian Mcewan

From a very young age I was flagrantly disobedient. I got involved in anything that was naughty. I wanted to explore all the dark…

— Tom Hardy

“If you love your duty only when your master treats you well or pleasant things happen to you, you are no better than an…

— Anand Neelakantan

Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Some people have accused my tragedy of being too sad, as though one desired a merry tragedy. People clamor for Enjoyment as though Enjoyment…

— August Strindberg

The essence of having fun is enjoying without guilt

— Anonymous

There is generally no such thing as duty to the people who do it. They simply take life as it comes, meeting, not, shirking…

— Mary Abigail Dodge