Affection Quote by Benjamin Haydon

The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after…

— Benjamin Haydon

Greatness is never appreciated in youth, called pride in midlife, dismissed in old age, and reconsidered in death. Because we cannot tolerate greatness in…

— J. Michael Straczynski

At first you struggle to earn name, fame and reputation, then you struggle to maintain it and at last you struggle to save it.

— Anonymous

“Youth is the only season for enjoyment, and the first twenty-five years of one's life are worth all the rest of the longest life…

— George Borrow

“The fragile nature of youth is at last hardened by the agony of experience.”

— Joel T. McGrath

When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those…

— Victor Hugo

Age's terms of peace, after the long interlude of war with life, have still to be concluded-Youth must keep decently away-so many old wounds…

— Eugene O'Neill

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Youth must be the worst time in anybody's life. Everything's happening for the first time, which means that sorrow, then, lasts forever. Later, you…

— Anonymous

A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous.

— Chilon of Sparta

It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint the hopes…

— Lyndon B. Johnson