"Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough."

Chesterfield, Lord on youth   

"No man knows he is young while he is young."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on youth
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"A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body."

Cicero, Marcus T. on youth   

"Youth is a period of missed opportunities."

Connolly, Cyril on youth
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"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."

Crisp, Quentin on youth
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"The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children."

Decter, Midge on youth
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"Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know."

Denham, Sir John on youth   

"A boy's story is the best that is ever told."

Dickens, Charles on youth
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"The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity."

Disraeli, Benjamin on youth   

"We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity."

Disraeli, Benjamin on youth   

"The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning."

Eliot, T. S. on youth
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"Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them."

Erskine, John on youth   

"If youth but knew; if age but could."

Estienne, Henri on youth   

"Youth holds no society with grief."

Euripides on youth   

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"Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor."

Euripides on youth
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"Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love."

Geraldy, Paul on youth
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"Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day."

Gilmore, Dame Mary on youth   

"Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on youth   

"Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be."

Carlyle, Thomas on character
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"Cry havoc! and let slip the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial."

Shakespeare, William on war
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"Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels."

Marden, Orison Swett on habit
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"The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them."

Butler, Samuel on writers and writing
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"The future is as bright as the promises of God."

Carey, William on the future
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"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on action
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"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays."

Hill, Harrold on tomorrow
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"What you are will show in what you do."

Edison, Thomas A. on action
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"Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither."

Lewis, C. S. on heaven
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"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."

Keller, Helen on work
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"Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity."

Marx, Karl on opportunity
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"Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on friends and friendship   

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"To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on greatness
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"Do not choose your wife at a dance, but in the field among the harvesters."

Proverb, Czech. on wives
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"Honor the ocean of love."

Benneville, George De on love
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"It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value."

Hawking, Stephen on intelligence and intellectuals
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"No one has ever drowned in sweat."

Holtz, Lou on work
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"The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism."

Welles, Orson on law and lawyers   

"I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit, and to mothball his opinions."

Bradley, Omar Nelson on generals
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"To change and change for the better are two different things"

Proverb, German on change
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"Religion is the opium of the masses."

Marx, Karl on religion
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"It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money."

Shaw, Henry Wheeler on reputation