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«The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.»
«The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.»
«The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Teenage,
Youth
| Keywords:
accused, exaggerating, immovability, impression, inertia, selfish, troubles
«The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
| About:
Elderly,
Love,
Marriage,
Youth
| Keywords:
compared, old man, superficial
«The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid»
«The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| About:
Excess,
Youth
| Keywords:
checks, excess, payable, thirty, Thirty Years
«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»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Corruption,
Youth
| Keywords:
alike, corrupt, corrupting, differently, esteem, hold in, instruct, instructs, surest, youth
«The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood»
«The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Idleness,
Perfection,
Youth
| Keywords:
idleness
«The old age of an eagle is better than the youth of a sparrow.»
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