A Quote by Jackie Coogan

The trouble was that I tried to prolong my youth. — © Jackie Coogan
The trouble was that I tried to prolong my youth.

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The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind.
I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.
I thought no more was needed Youth to prolong Than dumb-bell and foil To keep the body young. O who could have foretold That the heart grows old?
To prolong doubt was to prolong hope.
It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.
Half the trouble in the world arises from men trying to anticipate their time and season, and the other half from their trying to prolong them.
I tried to get into the National Youth Theatre and didn't, and I tried to get into drama school and didn't, and then I went to university and was really delighted that I went there. I think having the word 'no' can be quite creative.
Better never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you; for you only make your trouble double trouble when you do.
The whole thrust of science and the medical profession is to try and prevent it from happening, to try to prolong life, to keep you from dying, to keep you from getting older, to rejuvenate you. I mean, that's everybody's wish. The fountain of youth is everybody's sought-after thing.
I've tried to be a better person... I've tried, and tried and tried! You know how hard I've tried! Tell me how I've tried..." "Nice try... Five cents, please!
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full sport, age's breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee.
I could have probably raised them in L.A. and they would have been great and had so many things at their fingertips and been exposed to so many things. But we travel a lot, so I don't think that moving out of town is sheltering the girls at all. Maybe protecting them a little bit more, trying to prolong their youth.
The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
Yeah, I probably got in too much trouble as a youth to be a politician.
I think you write only out of a great trouble. A trouble of excitement, a trouble of enlargement, a trouble of displacement in yourself.
I tried self-sacrifice a couple of times in my youth.
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