Youth Quotes - Page 8
Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
"Oresteia: Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,
Thomas Carlyle (1825). “Carlyle's Works ...”
The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.92, Simon and Schuster
Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.31, Random House
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.216, Simon and Schuster
But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?
Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.307, Simon and Schuster
A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.
Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.255
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”
My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.
William Carlos Williams (1995). “Paterson”, p.31, New Directions Publishing
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
"The Charterhouse of Parma". Book by Stendhal, Ch. 23, 1839.
Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.61, Portobello Books