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I’m always amazed when I go to do stand-up dates and the ad in the paper says, “For Mature Audiences Only.” Nothing could be more immature than my stand-up.
Bob Saget1956–2022Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian (2014), Ch. 12: Falling Upward, Or What It’s Like To Be Loved And Hated
- Comedy
- Maturity
You snug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you’ll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
Siegfried Sassoon1886–1967Suicide in the Trenches (1918)In context
- War & Peace
- Youth
Just at the age ‘twixt boy and youth,
When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
Walter Scott1771–1832Marmion (1808), Canto II, introduction.In context
- Youth
I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot — we inhale from our Bartlett’s.
Rod Serling1924–1975Speech at Moorpark College, Moorpark, California (December 3, 1968).
- Quotations
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Cymbeline (1610), Act IV, scene ii.
- Life & Death
- Youth
I have liv’d long enough: my way of life
Is fall’n into the sere, the yellow leaf;
And that which should accompany old age,
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,
I must not look to have
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act V, Scene III, spoken by MacbethIn context
Men must endure
Their going hence, even as their coming hither;
Ripeness is all.
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act V, Scene II, spoken by EdgarIn context
- Life & Death
- Maturity
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598), Act II, Scene III, spoken by BenedickIn context
- Change
A good old man, sir; he will be talking; as they say, ‘when the age is in, the wit is out.’
William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598), Act III, Scene V, spoken by DogberryIn context
- Comedy
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Sonnet 73 (1609)In context
My salad days,
When I was green in judgment, cold in blood,
To say as I said then.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1606), Act I, Scene V, spoken by CleopatraIn context
- Maturity
- Youth
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1606), Act II, Scene II, spoken by EnobarbusIn context
- Beauty
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Man and Superman (1903), Maxims for Revolutionists, p. 242 Stray Sayings
Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Love Among the Artists (1900)
- Comedy
- Youth
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), #160
- Forgiveness
- Youth