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Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went.

Omar Khayy?°m

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

Georges Bernanos

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old

Epicurus

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded

W Somerset Maugham

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Oscar Wilde

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

Francois la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

The mist was all gone from the river now and the rapids sparkled and sang. They were still young as the land was young. We were there to enjoy it, and the great machines seemed far away.

Sigurd F. Olson

Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.

St. Jerome

When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.

George Bernard Shaw

The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard knowledge from a purely utilitarian point of view as the road to money, not as the gateway to wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.

Winston Churchill

Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them the one, in fact, which is not a mask.

Wystan Hugh Auden

No matter how old an individual may be, no matter if he is young or old, if he thinks in accordance with the times he is immortal.

Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they do not read.

Heywood Broun

No one grows up and wants to be a cop killer. It was against everything Ive ever was. As a young police explorer I found my calling in life. But, As a young police officer I found that the violent suspects on the street are not the only people you have to watch.

Christopher Jordan Dorner

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Francis Bacon

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

Andrew A. Rooney

A heart that loves is always young.

Greek Proverb

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards

Anatole France

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

Rupert Brooke

I like a man who's good, but not too good--for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

Mae West

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young

Oscar Wilde

Youth is wasted on the young.

George Bernard Shaw

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going.

John B. Priestly

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