Mason Cooley Quotes About Youth

Quotes about: Youth

• Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

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  Birthday, Lost Youth, Mourning

• Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age.

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  Growth, Age, Decay

• The young break rules for fun. The old for profit.

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  Fun, Broken, Age

• The young are amazed when they suffer.

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  Suffering, Youth, Young

• Age must give way to youth, no doubt. But not yet, not yet.

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  Giving, Doubt, Age

• The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.

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  Horse, Youth, Remember

• I do not regret the folly of my youth, but the timidity.

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  Regret, Fear, Youth

• I tried self-sacrifice a couple of times in my youth.

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  Couple, Sacrifice, Self

• Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

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  Retirement, Return, Youth

• The young are just as opinionated as the old, but have more exciting things to do than sit around airing their opinions all day.

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  Opinion, Youth, Young

• As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.

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  Trying, Age, Decay

• The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.

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  Real, Mirrors, Literature

• My young friend supposes his ingenuousness is merely a ruse.

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  Friends, Young Friends, Youth

• The modest youth somehow knows just what to do for the cameras.

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  Cameras, Modesty, Youth

• The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.

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  Vices, Fancy, Youth

• The trouble with the young people today is that it is they who are young.

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  People, Today, Youth

• Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.

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  Age, Ordinary, Demand

• The young have stolen our youthfulness, and flaunt it without shame.

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  Youth, Shame, Stolen

• The noisy vacancy of youth, the quiet vacancy of age.

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  Age, Vacancy, Youth

• In youth, love and art. In age, investments and antiques.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Age, Antiques

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