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Youth Quotes by Anthony Burgess
- Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.
- Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.
- ...youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so much as…
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- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle
- Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
- What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
- Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming… — Jane Austen
- The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. — Richard Bach
- Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and… — Francis Bacon
- Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than… — Francis Bacon
- For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially… — Honore de Balzac
- If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and… — Honore de Balzac