Young Quotes & Sayings

Young Quotes & Sayings

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When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked, In other words, I don't improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable. - John Steinbeck



When a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment. No one would think it is the intimacy of sex, that mere sex is the reason each lover takes so great and deep a joy in being with the other. - Plato



The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did, which was to hide. - James Arthur Baldwin



The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.



You're only young once, but you can be immature forever. - Germaine Greer



The best careers advice to give to the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it. - Katharine Whitehorn



The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. - Aristotle



May every young scientist remember, and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery. - Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett



It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. - George Bernard Shaw