When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman. Well, I found her but, alas, she was waiting for the ideal man.
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It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went.
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It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
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The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.
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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.
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Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young.
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Can't I live while I'm young
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Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
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It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young men of this mealy generation the courage of their confusion.
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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
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It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.
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Today's family is built like a pyramid with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and needs focused on the untrained, vulnerable, insecure, young, inexperienced and incompetent parental apex.. About whose incompetence our vaunted educational system does nothing.
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The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.
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To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesiato mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.
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I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
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And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.
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All you earnest young men out to save the world please, have a laugh.
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