"Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age."
― Walter Savage Landor
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Age
More From Walter Savage Landor
- "Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose."
- "Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good."
- "Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him."
More In Age
- "I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don’t know for sure."― Craig Ferguson
- "One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave."― Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
- "There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."― Arthur Schopenhauer