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“We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.”
Winston Churchill
“I could a tale unfold whose lightest wordWould harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres.”
William Shakespeare
“If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.”
Dorothy Parker
“Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.”
William James
“She should not die, so young and beautiful. At least, she should not die alone.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“It takes a long time to grow young.”
Pablo Picasso
“I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.”
William Faulkner
“I am only young once, who cares if I'm a goofball”
Ashton Kutcher
“When we are young and again when we are old, we depend heavily on the affection of others. Between these stages we usually feel that we can do everything without help from others and that other people's affection is simply not important. But at this stage I think it is very important to keep deep human affection.”
Dalai Lama
“Beware of the young doctor and the old barber”
Benjamin Franklin
