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“When a man of 40 falls in love with a girl of 20 it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.”
“Whom the gods love die young no matter how long they live.”
“Young folk silly folk old folk cold folk.”
“In early youth as we contemplate our coming life we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.”
“This is a youth-oriented society and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.”
“Oh to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small and only half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am.”
“When I was younger I could remember anything whether it had happened or not.”
“To keep clear of concealment to keep clear of the need of concealment to do nothing that he might not do out on the middle of Boston Common at noonday -I cannot say how more and more that seems to ...”
“Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him and that all merely exists for his sake.”
“You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility Young people hereabouts unbridled now Just want.”
“One boy's a boy two boys are half a boy three boys are no boy at all.”
“Trouble is kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.”
“Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.”
“The youth gets together this material to build a bridge to the moon or perchance a palace or temple on earth and at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.”
“Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own.”
“If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.”
“It's all that the young can do for the old to shock them and keep them up to date.”
“In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves For a bright manhood there is no such word As fail.”
“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 ...”
“I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more - the feeling that I could last forever outlast the sea the earth and all men.”
