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| The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later | | Charles Caleb Colton | |
| The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife. | | Will Durant | |
| The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently | | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid | | Carl Gustav Jung | |
| The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. | | Quentin Crisp | |
| The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. | | H. H. Munro | |
| The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| There is a fountain of youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring in your life and the lives of people you love | | Sophia Loren | |
| There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. | | Sophia Loren | |
| Those who tell the young man to live well and the old man to die well is nothing but a fool, not only for what life has in happiness to both young and old, but also for one must be careful in live honestly as well as die honestly." | | Epicurus | |
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| Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. | | Oliver Wendell Holmes | |
| To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies | | Oscar Wilde | |
| To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable | | Oscar Wilde | |
| To me it seems that youth is like spring, an over-praised season delightful if it happens to be a favored one, but in practice very rarely favored and more remarkable, as a general rule, for biting east winds than genial breezes | | Samuel Butler | |
| Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.' | | Albert Schweitzer | |
| We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures. | | Louis Armstrong | |
| Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere. | | Pablo Picasso | |
| What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen? | | Evelyn Waugh | |
