His Youth Quotes
54 His Youth quotes by 49 unique authors
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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
— Robert Browning
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Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
— Rufus Choate
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If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what…
— Jonathan Swift
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Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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His markings, month by month, became more beautiful, lines of autumn bracken colours with shapes which reminded me of currents on a quiet sea. True…
— Derek Tangye
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There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to…
— Ezra Pound
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Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new and better accessible…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Fitzgerald never got rid of anything; the ghosts of his adolescence, the failures of his youth, the doubts of his maturity plagued him to the…
— John Aldridge
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Media are focused on comments Michael Jordan made about race which appear in my book. He made those comments years ago, talking of his youth
— Roland Lazenby
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I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.
— Charles Sumner
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In his youth Michael Owen was literally a greyhound.
— Jamie Redknapp
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How blessed is he, who leads a country life, Unvex'd with anxious cares, and void of strife! Who studying peace, and shunning civil rage, Enjoy'd…
— John Dryden
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder,…
— Alexander Pope
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No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to…
— Plato
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King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can…
— Marianne Williamson
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In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are…
— Aristotle
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If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.
— John Burroughs
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I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in his…
— John Singer Sargent
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place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his…
— Confucius
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And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race.…
— Robert W. Service
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Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what they have in…
— Eric Hoffer
Who Wrote These His Youth Quotes
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