Youth Quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith

9 Youth quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith

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Logan Pearsall Smith offers nine witty observations on youth, revealing his sharp eye for the quirks of early adulthood. The modest selection still manages to convey his clever, often ironic tone.

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Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own

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Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

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Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

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The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

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Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the…

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To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if…

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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost…

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All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

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The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.

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Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

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If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.

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One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't…

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The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

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Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

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Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets.

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Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

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When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.

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Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.

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