Youth has to do with spirit, not age. Men of seventy or sixty are often more youthful than the young. Theirs is the real youth. —Henry Miller More about this quote Tags: age youth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I had known when I was twenty-one that I should be as happy as I am now, I should have been sincerely shocked. They promised me wormwood and the funeral raven. —Christopher Isherwood More about this quote Tags: age youth death shock Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I was young, I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. —W. Somerset Maugham More about this quote Tags: learning curiousity age youth Greek ambition Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them. —Ray Bradbury in Dandelion Wine More about this quote Tags: people youth sadness nature sensitivity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream. —Thomas Moore More about this quote Tags: love life youth sweetness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own. —Logan Pearsall Smith More about this quote Tags: change youth experimentation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. —Dave Barry More about this quote Tags: maturity youth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Even very recently, the elders could say [to the youths]: "You know, I have been young and you never have been old." But today's young people can reply: "You never have been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be." . . . This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal. —Margaret Mead More about this quote Tags: now generations experience world youth old age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How can one accept — let alone enjoy — aging in a culture where God is twenty-five; where advertisements are filled with twenty-somethings in halter tops and tight t-shirts, unless the ad is for a drug to treat incontinence, high blood pressure, or elevated cholesterol? What about the wisdom of age? What about endurance? What about the beauty of a face etched by years that were not always easy? —Genie Zeiger More about this quote Tags: God easy wisdom acceptance beauty aging age youth incontinence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive. —Jessamyn West More about this quote Tags: ignorance communication youth forgetting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Frederick William was deeply disappointed by his son, the future Frederick the Great, who in his youth seemed more interested in French culture, music, and literature than in the military virtues. The father's disaffection turned to actual hatred, and his treatment became so harsh that the young prince decided to run away, with the aid of two accomplices, Lieutenants Katte and Keith. The plan was discovered; Keith escaped, but the prince and Katte were captured and court-martialed. Katte was sentenced to life imprisonment, Frederick to solitary confinement. Frederick William, deciding that Katte's sentence was too lenient, had him beheaded in the presence of Prince Frederick. This drastic measure had the desired effect; Frederick asked the king's pardon and began to apply himself to acquiring the Prussian military philosophy. —The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: history music escape art youth culture literature Prussia Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. —Herbert Henry Asquith More about this quote Tags: time age youth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. —Randall Jarrell More about this quote Tags: wonder memory children youth forgetting obviousness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: failure youth work effort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18. —Jim Bishop More about this quote Tags: understanding youth teenagers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email