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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
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)
- Wisdom
- Writing
Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.
Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988Methuselah’s Children (1958)
- Age
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
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)
Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
Herbert Hoover1874–1964Address to the Nebraska Republican Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska (16 January 1936)
- Comedy
- Economics
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.
Herbert Hoover1874–1964Speech in Chicago, Illinois to the 23rd Republican national convention (27 June 1944)
- War & Peace
I’ll say one thing about an oil boom; it will teach a kid that Life’s a pretty rotten thing as quick as anything I can think of.
Robert E. Howard1906–1936From a letter to Farnsworth Wright (c. Summer 1931)
- Life & Death
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo1802–1885
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
The first years of man must make provision for the last.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Ch. XXVII
- Age
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
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
Søren Kierkegaard1813–1855Either/Or (1843), Vol. I, Diapsalmata (tr. David F. and Lillian Marvin Swenson)
- Age
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
Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
Fran Lebowitzborn 1950Social Studies (1981), “Tips for Teens”.