Young Quotes - Page 38

• A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Thinking, Years

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.325

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• He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

  Samuel Butler

  Education, Teaching, Men

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.277, The Floating Press

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• When you're young and fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter.

  Roy Rogers

  Horse, Fall, Age

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• There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."

  Francis Bacon

  Mother, Father, Knowledge

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1850). “The works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England”, p.113

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• Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Old Man, Exception

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• The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them. A young writer must cross many psychological barriers to acquire confidence in his capacity to produce good work-especially his first full-length book-and he cannot do this by staring at a piece of blank paper, searching for the perfect sentence.

  Paul Johnson

  Book, Writing, Perfect

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• A lot of young writers wait for inspiration. The inspiration only hits you at the desk.

  Robert Anderson

  Inspiration, Writing, Waiting

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• Age indomitably, in the European manner. Do not finish your labours young. Be a planet, not a meteor. Honor the working day. Sit at your desk.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Life, Honor, Age

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• It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world... A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit... But it caught on, especially with young people - they surprised me most of all.

  James Stewart

  Friendship, Men, Play

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• I would guess that the typical profile of a 'follower' is someone who is young and who feels marginalised, empty and pointless. They don't have an inner life.

  Oliver James

  Typical, Followers, Empty

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• If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience

  Imran Khan

  Sports, Son, Wife

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• The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.

  Henry Miller

  Wise, Keys, Order

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.118, New Directions Publishing

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• More American young people can tell you where an island that the 'Survivor' TV series came from is located than can identify Afghanistan or Iraq. Ironically a TV show seems more real or at least more meaningful interesting or relevant than reality.

  John Fahey

  Meaningful, Real, Islands

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• Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

  Voltaire

  Hands, Firsts, Revolution

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• In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals.

  David Mitchell

  Numbers, People, Age

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• A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Elders, Young Man

  Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Punch 1

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• I myself, for instance, am not especially gifted, and am shy by nature, but my gracious and merciful God and Father inclined Himself to me, and when I was weak in faith He strengthened me while I was still young. He taught me in my helplessness to rest on Him, and to pray even about little things in which another might have felt able to help himself.

  Hudson Taylor

  Father, Shy, Littles

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• As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.

  Dan O'Brien

  Fun, Athlete, Winning

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• As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

  Dan O'Brien

  Children, Pain, Way

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• Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely.

  Tim Johnson

  Children, Poor Quality, Support

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• Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.

  Andrew Lang

  Dream, Men, Laughing

  Andrew Lang, Henry Justice Ford, Lancelot Speed (1966). “The Red Fairy Book”, p.260, Courier Corporation

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• When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate, the myth of sacrifice so that the whole affair would not be seen for what it was: a meaningless waste of millions of lives. Logically, if the flower of youth had been cut down in Flanders, the survivors were not the flower: the dead were superior to the traumatized living. In this way, the virtual destruction of a generation further increased the distance between the old and the young, between the official and the unofficial.

  Robert Hughes

  Distance, War, Flower

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• You may be embarrassed about the way you looked and the wacky clothes you wore when you were young, but normally, at least it's hidden in a box in the attic.

  John Oates

  Clothes, May, Way

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• I move in a society so devoid of ordinary reality that I am continually stopping to teach good sense, to give support, to help out, as a young gangster might help an old lady across the street on his way to the stick-up.

  Paul Goodman

  Moving, Reality, Giving

  Paul Goodman (1966). “Five years”

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• You're so young... Are you sure that's what you want your life to be, forever and ever? That job? That career? That girlfriend?

  Peter Cameron

  Life, Girlfriend, Jobs

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