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Letter "Y" » Youth
«Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.»
«Even when I was little, I was big.»
Author: William J. Perry
| About:
Youth
«He who wants to warm himself in old age must build a fireplace in his youth»
«Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
| About:
Euphemisms,
Youth
| Keywords:
agents, airily, barely, bluntly, euphemism, euphemisms, nod, pass by, secret agent, secret agents, stinking, verbiage
«For life in general, there is but one decree; youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| About:
Life,
Youth
| Keywords:
blunder, decree
«Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Experience,
Youth
| Keywords:
of age, renounce, revelation
«Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.»
«For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| About:
Age,
Youth
| Keywords:
dress, evening, evening dress, evening star, fades, fading away, filled, invisible, less than, twilight, youth
«Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake»
«Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
40th birthday,
Age,
Youth
| Keywords:
forty
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