Be Young Quotes

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

  Bob Dylan

  Maturity, Pages

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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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• 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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  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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• May you stay Forever Young

  Bob Dylan

  Birthday, Forever, May

  Song: Forever Young, Album: Planet Waves, 1974

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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• Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

  J. K. Rowling

  Age, Potters, Youth

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

  Germaine Greer

  Life, Happy Birthday, Happiness

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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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• In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.

  Wallace Stegner

  Beautiful, Games, Wife

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.16, Modern Library

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• And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because I love you so desperately, and time is so short, we have such a little time in which to live and be young, even at best, and I put my arms around you and hold you because I want to love you while I can and I want to know I'm loving you, only it doesn't mean anything because you aren't afraid. You aren't frightened so that you want to clutch it all while you can.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Love You, Mean, Loving You

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• Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

  Charles Bukowski

  Children, Taken, Laughing

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.

  Glenway Wescott

  Running, Long, Luck

  Glenway Wescott (1940). “The pilgrim hawk: a love story”

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• Those who cry to be young again should think twice before they seal those prayers.

  Laura Whitcomb

  Prayer, Thinking, Cry

  Laura Whitcomb (2005). “A Certain Slant of Light”, p.154, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Rowdy, hopped-up college kids pass us in an endless, noisy blur like they're being mass produced or squeezed out of a tube - guys skulking in their T-shirts and cargo shorts, girls in low-slung jeans and flip-flops, pimples and breasts and tattoos and lipstick and legs and bra straps, and cigarettes; a colorful, sexy melange. I feel old and tired and I just want to be them again, want to be young and stupid, filled with angst and attitude and unbridled lust. Can I have a do-over, please? I swear to God I'll make a real go of it this time.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Tattoo, Girl, Sexy

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• Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

  Aldo Leopold

  Country, Men, Pioneers

  Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.135, Oxford University Press

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• It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Women, Young, Pointless

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