“The young don’t know what age is, and the old forget what youth was.” — Seumas MacManus, Heavy Hangs the Golden Grain
Tag: youth
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“Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.” — V. S. Pritchett, Midnight Oil
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“The young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.” — Oscar Wilde, “The American Invasion,” Court and Society Review (1887-03-23)
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“There is no one so unfeeling as a hostess who is set on having the young folks enjoy themselves.” — Robert Benchley, “Let’s Not Dance This!,” My Ten Years in a Quandary, and How They Grew
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“Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.” — Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary
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“In sum, once I was twenty and not so young, now I’m sixty inclined on the young side.” — Bernard Malamud, The Art of Fiction No. 52, the Paris Review (Spring 1975)
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“Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.” — Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection (1987)
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“The young habitually mistake lust for love, they’re infested with idealism of all kinds.” — Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
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“The trouble with the young people today is that it is they who are young.” — Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms
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“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.” — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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