George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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• Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Age

• I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Age
  • Think
  • Reading

• I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Age
  • Like
  • Years

• Hope is not a matter of age.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Hope
  • Age
  • Matter

• Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Age
  • Now
  • Voting

• There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Age
  • Relationship

• I majored in political science and English, but starting from the age of 17, I've paid for everything that I've had in my life. It was a personal choice. My parents would have helped me in any way whatsoever, but for me, you know what? I can make my own way.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Life
  • Age
  • Parents

• I encourage all men - and all women who love their men - to make sure to get out every year, from the age of 50 on, and have PSA and DRE tests. With early detection, you can have an early cure.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Work
  • Age
  • Man

• Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Age
  • Never
  • Talent

• The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Age
  • Reading
  • Youth

• The retirement age needs to be raised. A portion of Social Security ought to be privatized, if not all. And there probably needs to be some means testing. It's a Ponzi scheme that's not sustainable.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Age
  • Security
  • Retirement

• We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Work
  • Age
  • Justice

• Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Life
  • Age
  • Father

• I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • World
  • Age
  • Myself

• A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Home
  • Age
  • Feeling

• Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Age
  • Respect
  • Hair

• In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Age
  • Play
  • Mom

• From a pretty early age, I developed an interest in travel. I told my parents I wanted to live abroad, and they said, 'Well, you have to have money to do those things.'

  

  Aileen Lee
  • Live
  • Money
  • Age

• There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

  

  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
  • Time
  • Good
  • Luck

• I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Future
  • Optimistic

• I grew up in the next town over from Asbury Park and five streets from E Street. My mother fed me 'Born To Run' with my Cheerios.

  

  Brian Fallon
  • Up
  • Mother

• Oh, where is there the heart but knowsLove's first steps are upon the rose!

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Heart
  • Rose

• Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Age