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If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man.
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Jude the Obscure (1895), Part First: At Marygreen, Chapter IIIn context
- Maturity
- Youth
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
SHSydney J. Harris1917–1986Strictly Personal (1953), “Purely Personal Prejudices”
- Ideas
- Youth
Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom’s Day.
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864“Wakefield” (1835) from Twice Told Tales (1837, 1851)
- Time
- Youth
In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864The Snow-Image, and Other Tales, Preface (1852)
Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.
Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988Methuselah’s Children (1958)
- Youth
They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961A Farewell to Arms (1929), Book IV, Chapter XXXVIn context
- Wisdom
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick1591–1674To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time (1648)In context
- Time
- Youth
It is time which imparts strength to all things and brings them to maturity.
Hippocrates460–370 BCThe Law, 3.
- Maturity
- Time
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935
The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935Often credited to Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Reading
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
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894“On the Seventieth Birthday of Julia Ward Howe” (May 27, 1889); reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
Herbert Hoover1874–1964Address to the Nebraska Republican Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska (16 January 1936)