Any Quote by Stephanie March

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

— Democritus

“I can never see why people should be jealous. After all, youth isn't a matter of privilege, we all get the same share of…

— P.D. James

Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions a youth…

— Louise J. Kaplan

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

It is comparatively a faint and reflected beauty that is admired, not an essential and intrinsic one. It is because the old are weak,…

— Henry David Thoreau

But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.

— Ellen Glasgow

I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

The question we do not see when we are young is whether we own pride or are owned by it.

— Josephine Winslow Johnson

Young men, I beseech you earnestly, beware of pride. Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world- one is a…

— Anonymous

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

— Edmund Burke

Naturally, grown-up citizens are concerned about the beatniks and delinquents. ... The question is why the grownups do not, more soberly, draw the same…

— Paul Goodman

If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.

— Willa Cather