Quotes with youth-worshiping

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  • Gore Vidal If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Honoré de Balzac If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • James Russell Lowell If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Henri Estienne If youth but knew; if age but could.
    Henri Estienne
    French printer and classicist (1528 - 1598)
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  • Henri Estienne If youth knew; if age could.
    Henri Estienne
    French printer and classicist (1528 - 1598)
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  • E. M. Cioran Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Bethany McLean In capital we trust. Capital is our savior, our holy grail, our fountain of youth, or at least health, for banks.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • Socrates In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Will Durant In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Salvador Dali In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • Bruce Catton In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Jean Paul In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • George Robert Gissing In youth one marvels that man remains at so low a stage of civilisation, in later life one marvels that he has got so far.
    George Robert Gissing
    English writer (1857 - 1903)
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  • Nikita Ivanovich Panin In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
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  • Haniel Long In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.
    Haniel Long
    American writer, poet, journalist (1888 - 1956)
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  • Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach In youth we learn; in age we understand.
    Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
    Austrian writer (1830 - 1916)
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  • Josh Billings In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • B. Carroll Reece Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.
    B. Carroll Reece
    American politician (1889 - 1961)
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  • Jonathan Swift Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Jonathan Swift Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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