Bryan Adams
Singer-Songwriter
"Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life."
Later In Life quotes
Later In Life
78 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Umberto Eco
Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
"I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly."
Margaret Fuller
Transcendentalist, Writer
"For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life."
Kit Williams
Author and Illustrator
"He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novelist
"Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores."
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"While I liked hamsters, too, the Habitrail cage was expensive. Even I could see that the interconnecting boxes, tubes, and spheres could easily bankrupt a family and lead to addiction later in life. Because, how would you know when to stop? How could you stop? An entire city could be built with a Habitrail."
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"We think in youth that our bodies are identical to ourselves and have the same interests, but discover later in life that they are heartless companions who have been accidentally yoked with us, and who are as likely as not, in our extreme sickness or old age, to treat us with less mercy than we would have received at the hands of the worst bandits."
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"Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all."
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"I always think back to my high school days and realize all the people who were so popular then are nowhere now and all the people who were steadfast and steady-going are somewhere. So high school doesn't necessarily translate to later in life."
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"As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome."
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