Be Young Quotes

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Lucille Ball

Happy Birthday, Beauty, Funny Birthday

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Sophia Loren

Life, Birthday, Death

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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It takes a long time to become young.

Pablo Picasso

Birthday, Wise, Time

Jean Louis Ferrier, Pablo Picasso (1996). “Picasso”, Vilo International

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

Age, Potters, Youth

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Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Jack Benny

Funny, Happy Birthday, Elderly

New York Times, 1974.

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I am not young enough to know everything.

James M. Barrie

Book, Athlete, Knowledge

The Admirable Crichton (performed 1902, pubd. 1914) act 1

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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Francis Bacon

Time, Business, People

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You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

Samuel Ullman

Birthday, Confidence, Self

"The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood" by Jane Manner, (p. 323-24), 1934.

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May you stay Forever Young

Bob Dylan

Birthday, Forever, May

Song: Forever Young, Album: Planet Waves, 1974

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I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now. From the back pages

Bob Dylan

Maturity, Pages

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Oscar Wilde

Love, Birthday, Time

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.167, Wordsworth Editions

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

George Bernard Shaw

Forgiveness, Time, Forgiving

Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Stray Sayings"

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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Oscar Wilde

Funny, Happy Birthday, Growing Up

"Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

George Bernard Shaw

Funny, Happy Birthday, Family

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Germaine Greer

Life, Happy Birthday, Happiness

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You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear.

Paul H. Dunn

Self Confidence, Wrinkles, Inspirational Birthday

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What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your faith. If you will face the sunlight of truth, the shadows of discouragement and sin and error will fall behind you. You must never give up!

Boyd K. Packer

Time, Giving Up, Truth

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Come warm weather, I'm going to take a kid fishing; I hope you do to. But nothing would make me happier than to look across the cove or down the stream and see a young one help an old one remember what it is like to be young in Springtime.

Gene Hill

Kids, Hunting, Fishing

Gene Hill (1985). “A Listening Walk --and Other Stories”, p.109, Academic Learning Company LLC

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No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.

Knut Hamsun

Flower, Light, Offering

Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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Not sorry, not calling, not crying
All will pass like smoke of white apple trees
Seized by the gold of autumn,
I will no longer be young.

Sergei Yesenin

Sorry, Autumn, White

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With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short, one can live.

Karl Barth

Musical, Ears, Young

Karl Barth (2003). “Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart”, p.11, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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I think the anti-smoking business is a yuppie invention-an extension of the concept that "we'll always be young, rich, and healthy.

Frank Zappa

Health, Thinking, Yuppies

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To be young, really young, takes a very long time.

Pablo Picasso

Inspirational, Long, Young

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As you're growing up, it's odd, because directors don't expect you to grow up. They think you'll be young forever, but as an actor, there is an awkward period when you're too young for old or too old for young, and it can be an odd time.

Nicholas Hoult

Growing Up, Thinking, Forever

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