Hostility Quote by J. A. Spender Download Open image “Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged.” — J. A. Spender ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hostility Middle Middle aged Vices Worst Youth
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The follies of youth become the vices of manhood and the disgrace of old age. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Youth is always a little offended to find itself not preferred: it cannot help feeling that when it admits the old to its society,… — Margery Sharp Copy Share Image
Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgement but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if… — Midge Decter Copy Share Image
A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous. — Chilon of Sparta Copy Share Image
The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
“youth runs away from old age, because it is its most cruel enemy” — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
We all denounce bores, but while we do so, let us remember that there is nobody who isn't a bore to somebody. — J. A. Spender Copy Share Image
'Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop into… — J. A. Spender Copy Share Image
All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the vast tracks… — J. A. Spender Copy Share Image
It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present. — J. A. Spender Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right. — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
It is easy to speak words of love, or to meditate lovingly upon those people with whom you are in harmony. But it is… — Catherine Ponder Copy Share Image
Bisexuals need to recognize that their being closeted is a huge contributing factor to the hostility they face. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control. Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't have a fully loaded weapon next to you round the clock. But I think it's time you flipped this little scenario in your head. If you'd been taken by the Capitol, and hijacked, and then tried to kill Peeta, is… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share
The holiness of the church means that life, as well as truth, marks Christ’s church; the behavior of Christians in the world must be… — Edmund Clowney Copy Share Image
More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility. — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
The press is going to have to learn anew that it's possible to work in an environment that is not so toxic and to readopt those kinds of techniques. The relationship between the press and the Clinton White House during the later period was not a healthy one. There was a lot of hostility and a lot of suspicion. This… — Ted Gup Copy Share
When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Some people criticize me for using sources that are a bit low brow (this quote is from 'Gladiator') but you know what? 'I'm just… — Banksy Copy Share Image
But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be a civil war of… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
