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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
Simone de Beauvoir1908–1986Conclusion, p. 543
- Age
A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.
Paul Gauguin1848–1903The Writings of a Savage (1996), p. 68: from his manuscript, known as ‘Cahier pour Aline’ (ca. 1892-1893)
- Age
Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
Dylan Thomas1914–1953Fern Hill (1946), St. 6
- Time
I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
Lyndon B. Johnson1908–1973(28 July 1965)
- War & Peace
He that would pass the latter part of life with honour and decency, must, when he is young, consider that he shall one day be old; and remember, when he is old, that he has once been young.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The Rambler (1750–1752), No. 50 (8 September 1750)
- Age
The youth of humanity all around our planet are intuitively revolting from all sovereignties and political ideologies.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983Synergetics (1975), “The Wellspring of Reality”
- Politics
Blessings on your young courage, boy; that’s the way to the stars.
Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book IX, Line 641
- Courage
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
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
All children, except one, grow up.
J. M. Barrie1860–1937Peter Pan (1911), Peter and Wendy (1911), Ch. 1In context
- Children
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)
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
The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.
MMMignon McLaughlin1913–1983The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981)
- Happiness
My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out.
Timothy Leary1920–1996The Politics of Ecstasy (1968)
- Advice
Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
- Age