“Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“Think how great a proportion of mankind, consists of weak and ignorant men and women, and of inexperienced youth of both sexes, who have need of the motives of religion to restrain them from vice, to support their virtue, and retain them in the pract”
Benjamin Franklin
“The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.”
Alexander Pope
“If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vim and vigor, then there is something wrong with our colleges. The more riots that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow.”
William Allen White
“I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.”
Brigitte Bardot
“Young men and young women meet each other with much less difficulty than was formerly the case, and every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel”
Bertrand Russell
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