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Our youth we can have but to-day,
We may always find time to grow old.
George Berkeley1685–1753Can Love be controlled by Advice?, reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- Youth
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them
The Bible (King James Version)Ecclesiastes 12:1 (KJV)In context
- God
- Youth
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
The Bible (King James Version)1 Corinthians 13:11 (KJV)In context
- Maturity
- Youth
You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914
- Women
Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- Comedy
- Youth
Youth, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- Youth
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old,
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Laurence Binyon1869–1943For the Fallen (1914)In context
- War & Peace
Half of maturity consists of knowing when and how to be immature.
CBChris Bowyer
Kindness and intelligence are the preoccupations of age. Being cruel and thoughtless is far more fascinating when you’re twenty.
Ray Bradbury1920–2012Dandelion Wine (1957), p. 147
- Youth
The prosperity of a country can be seen simply in how it treats its old people.
NBNachman of Bratslav
- Government
Elderly men who are popular with young women usually lack wisdom.
NBNachman of Bratslav
- Men
I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free; and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them!
Emily Brontë1818–1848Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter XIIIn context
- Freedom
- Youth
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be
Robert Browning1812–1889Rabbi ben Ezra (1864)In context
Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.
John Buchan1875–1940A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. XI, pp. 313–4
- Wisdom
Yet somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.
Pearl S. Buck1892–1973My Several Worlds (1954), p. 337