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“You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.”
Dave Barry
“Love is too young to know what conscience is.”
William Shakespeare
“When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work”
George Bernard Shaw
“The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.”
Aristotle
“There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.”
Maya Angelou
“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.”
“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
“Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”
“She looks like something that would eat its young”
Dorothy Parker