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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
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Cymbeline (1610), Act IV, scene ii.
- Life & Death
My salad days,
When I was green in judgment, cold in blood,
To say as I said then.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1606), Act I, Scene V, spoken by CleopatraIn context
- Maturity
Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Love Among the Artists (1900)
- Comedy
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), #160
- Age
- Forgiveness
If I could offer one piece of advice to young people thinking about their future, it would be this: Don’t preconceive. Find out what the opportunities are.
Thomas Sowellborn 1930Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)
- 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
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
How can you say young girls don’t get it? They’re our future. Our future doctors, lawyers, mothers, presidents, they kind of keep the world going.
Harry Stylesborn 1994Interview by Cameron Crowe in Rolling Stone (18 April 2017)
- Women
In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish’d dove;
In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892Locksley Hall (1842)In context
- Love
Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
Dylan Thomas1914–1953Fern Hill (1946), St. 6
- Time
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walden (1854)In context
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
Mark Twain1835–1910“Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington”, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (1867), ed. John Paul
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
Mark Twain1835–1910Autobiography of Mark Twain, Mark Twain Project edition, Volume 1 (2010), p. 210
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
?UnattributedOften credited to Mark Twain
- Family