Youth Quotes - Page 38

• In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but interest, and to lose shame without substituting virtue.

  Samuel Johnson

  Age, World, Opinion

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.179

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• Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Judgement, Amplification, Glory

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• If we have youth, beauty, blessed gifts, strength, if we find fame, fortune, favor, fulfillment, it is easy to be nice, to turn a warm heart to the world.

  Oliver Sacks

  Nice, Blessed, Heart

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• The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.

  Plutarch

  Needs, Pleasure, Adolescence

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• It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Being Yourself, Children, Responsibility

  Simone de Beauvoir (1968). “Les Belles Images”

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• For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for a moment in the height of prosperity; then at life's end with limbs worn out by old age and wrinkles adorning his face, like an actor he retires behind the curtain of death.

  Bhartrhari

  Boys, Men, Wrinkles

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• Every major industrial society believes that it has a serious youth problem.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Believe, Serious, Problem

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• Where's the hope that can abate
  The grief of hearts thus desolate
  That can Youth's keenest pangs assuage,
  And mitigate the gloom of Age?
  Religion bids the tempest cease,
  And, leads her to a port of peace;
  And on, the lonely pilot steers
  Through the lapse of future years.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Hope, Lonely, Grief

  Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems”, p.103

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• True, I used to see a lot of hope. I saw men tear down the veils behind which the truth had been hidden. But then the same men, when they have power in their hands at last, began to find the veils useful. They made many more. Life has not changed. Only some people have been growing, becoming different, that is all. After a youth spent fighting the white man, why should not the president discover as he grows older that his real desire has been to be like the white governor himself, to live above all the blackness in the big old slave castle?

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Real, Fighting, Men

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• Bad television is three things: a bullet train to a morally bankrupt youth, a slow spiral into an intellectual void, and of course, a complete blast to watch.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Intellectual, Watches

  Dennis Miller (2011). “Ranting Again”, p.98, Main Street Books

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• Money. . . those who don't have enough of it are only aware of what it can buy them. When you finally have enough of it you become aware- acutely aware-of all the things it can't buy ... the really important things, like youth, health, love, peace of mind.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Money, Mind, Important

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• Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Wisdom, Practice, Age

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• Do you want to know what I most regret about my youth? That I didn't dream more boldly and demand of myself more impossible things; for all one does in maturity is to carve in granite or porphyry the soap bubble one blew in youth! Oh to have dreamed harder!

  Lewis Mumford

  Dream, Regret, Maturity

  Lewis Mumford (1975). “Findings and keepings: analects for an autobiography”, Not Avail

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• The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.

  Mason Cooley

  Real, Mirrors, Literature

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• I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for the formation of these apparently fugitive but really vital impressions.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Giving, Important

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.15, Routledge

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• Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.

  Saul Landau

  Learning, Adults, Boyhood

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• I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more about it.

  Alexander Haig

  Thinking, America, Generations

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• The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.

  Olive Schreiner

  Tree, Scar, Trouble

  Olive Schreiner (2014). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.92, Read Books Ltd

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• I remember being young in the 1960s. We had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Dream, Missing, World

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

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• While many applauded Oprah for opening her heart to young girls in South Africa, some criticized her for not investing in the youth of America.

  Kitty Kelley

  Girl, Heart, America

  "No Oprah in the Billionaire Club" by Kitty Kelley, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 6, 2010.

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• Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dream, Rome, World

  "Italian Journey". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1816.

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• Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.

  Ben Jonson

  Age, Example, Fallen

  Ben Jonson, Robert S. Miola (2000). “Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version”, p.251, Manchester University Press

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• The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.

  Abdallah II

  Country, Giving, Make Or Break

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• This is going to sound strange, but I really didn't think I would pass 30. I don't know why or whatever, I just didn't. That's a very weird thing to say, I'm sorry. I don't know. Maybe it's because I was drinking so much as a youth.

  Kristin Davis

  Sorry, Drinking, Thinking

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• You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Firsts, Young

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1999). “Crime and Punishment”, p.467, Modern Library

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