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“It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.”
Flannery O'Connor
“Learn young, learn fair; learn old, learn more”
Scottish Proverb
“You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.”
Germaine Greer
“It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living”
Carey Williams
“I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.”
Walt Whitman
“America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.”
William S. Burroughs
“We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people -- leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“Treaties are like roses and young girls -- they last while they last”
Charles de Gaulle
