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Anon.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they allow disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children now are tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the
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Hesiod
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This quote was used by the Mayor of Amsterdam, Gijsbert van Hall, following a street demonstration in 1966, as reported by The New York Times, April 3, 1966, p. 16
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Peter the Hermit
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I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceed
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Peter the Hermit
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I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceed
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Henry Miller
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The American ideal is youth -- handsome, empty youth.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
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JEAN INGELOW: _Four Bridges,_ St. 56.
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Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, Like marigolds, toward the sunny side.
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Margaret Mead
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As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
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Victor Hugo
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Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age.
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Victor Hugo
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
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Maurice Chevalier
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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.
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Nan Fairbrother
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It happened once that a youth and a maiden beheld each other in a public assembly for the first time???The youth gazed with great delight upon the beautiful face until he caught the maiden???s eye???The mysterious communication that is established across a hous
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Haniel Long
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In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.
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Mark Twain
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Youth, large, lusty, loving- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination
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J. B. Priestley
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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
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Aeschylus
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Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
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Lawana Blackwell
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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.
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Stanislaw Lec
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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
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Aristotle
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
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Doris Day
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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
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Henry Adams
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What one knows is, in youth, of little moment they know enough who know how to learn.
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Evelyn Waugh
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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen
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Rabindranath Tagore
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Age considers; youth ventures.
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French Proverb
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If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the woods is perpetual youth.
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Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
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In youth we learn in age we understand.
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Coco Chanel
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Youth is something very new twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
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Mignon McLaughlin
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Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.
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American Indian Proverb
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Cherish youth, but trust old age.
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George Crabbe
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Habit with him was all the test of truth, It must be right I've done it from my youth.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Youth is wasted on the young.
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Marvin D. Levy
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The day a person becomes a cynic is the day he loses his youth.
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Herbert Hoover
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Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret.
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Helen Hoover Santmyer
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Time--our youth--it never really goes, does it It is all held in our minds.
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Alfred Victor Vigny
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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
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Pearl S. Buck
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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
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Mignon McLaughlin
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There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
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Logan Pearsall Smith
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Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
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Robert Browning
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What's a man's age He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
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Sir Walter Besant
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Youth is a wonderful thing what a crime to waste it on children.
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Euripides
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Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.
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John Moore
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He who hasn't hacked assemply language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
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Albert Einstein
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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
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Aristotle
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Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
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W. Somerset Maugham
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By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.
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Bill Vaughn
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Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
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Virginia
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One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
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Pablo Picasso
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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Joseph Addison
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How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue Who would not be that youth What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country
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Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are aftermath of war.
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The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are n
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"50...the old age of youth, the youth of old age." William Powell
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I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.
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A Church without Youth is a Church without a future. Moreover, Youth without a Church is Youth without a future.
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We have some salt of our youth in us.
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Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.
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In youth we learn; in age we understand.
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Praise youth and it will prosper.
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Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
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One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
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We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart?
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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
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We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
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Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die.
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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
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What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.
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Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
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Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill.
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.
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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth...
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Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
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The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.
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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
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A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?
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George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - he could not even lie.
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Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.
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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.
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There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth...lust. When he is strong...quarrelsomeness. When he is old...covetousness.
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Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future.
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
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Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
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He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be
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"I LOVE YOU MARY JANE" (c) Sonic Youth & Cypress Hill
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"Today's reckless youth...with their fast cars and rumble seats..."
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"I'm late for my Hitler Youth meeting!" Crow T. Robot
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"Ah, youth. Ah, statute of limitations." - John Waters, SHOCK VALUE
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"In youth we learn; in age we understand." - MARIE EBNER-ESCHENBACH
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I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this: dream a great dream.
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There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.
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"Ancient times were the youth of the world." -- Bacon
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"Youth is about sex, drugs, pizza, and more sex." -- Nikki Sixx
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