(2779 quotes found)
“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
“The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.”
William Osler
“I would advise young artists . . . to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly . . . . If their painting doesn't improve by itself, it means that nothing can be done - and I wouldn't do anything!”
Claude Monet
“Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living”
Carey Williams
“Beware of the young doctor and the old barber”
Benjamin Franklin
“Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old”
Washington Irving
“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
“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.
“Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.”
Walt Disney
“You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.”
Germaine Greer