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Just at the age ‘twixt boy and youth,
When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
Walter Scott1771–1832Marmion (1808), Canto II, introduction.In context
- Youth
There are some people who imagine that older adults don’t know how to use the internet. My immediate reaction is, “I’ve got news for you, we invented it.”
Vint Cerfborn 1943“Your Life: Vinton Cerf” (2016), p. 30
- Internet
The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.
Max Stirner1806–1856The Ego and Its Own (1844), Cambridge 1995 ed., pp. 61-62
- Education
- Youth
All children, except one, grow up.
J. M. Barrie1860–1937Peter Pan (1911), Peter and Wendy (1911), Ch. 1In context
- Children
- Youth
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire (1884)
- Youth
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963“On Three Ways of Writing for Children” (1952); in Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (1967), p. 25
- Maturity
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.
Tallulah Bankhead1902–1968Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)
- Comedy
When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children.
L. Frank Baum1856–1919Personal inscription on a copy of Mother Goose in Prose (1897) which he gave to his sister, Mary Louise Baum Brewster, as quoted in The Making of the Wizard of Oz (1998) by Aljean Harmetz, p. 317
- Writing
Bestow therefore thy youth so, that thou mayest have comfort to remember it when it hath forsaken thee, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.
Walter Raleigh1552–1618Instructions to his Son and to Posterity (published 1632), Chapter II
- Advice
- Youth
The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.
MMMignon McLaughlin1913–1983The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981)
- Happiness
- Youth
Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 55
The sooner you treat him as a man, the sooner he will begin to be one.
John Locke1632–1704Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693), Sec. 95
- Children
- Maturity
Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.
MMMignon McLaughlin1913–1983The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981), Women & men
- Men
- Women
Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
Douglas Adams1952–2001The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
- Technology
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
Evelyn Waugh1903–1966A Little Learning (1964), First lines
- Writing