Short quotations about, young - Page 2

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To be 70 years young is sometimes f…

13 Oct , 2011  

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. Great short quote and quotation by: Oliver Wendell Holmes , US author & physician (1809 – 1894)

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To be 70 years young is sometimes f…

13 Oct , 2011  

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. Great short quote and quotation by: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. , US jurist (1841 – 1935)

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To grow old is to grow common. Old …

13 Oct , 2011  

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes – we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world. Great short quote and quotation by: Eric Hoffer […]

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Arsene Houssaye

We must always have old memories an…

15 Feb , 2011  

We must always have old memories and young hopes. Great short quote and quotation by: Arsene Houssaye ,

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When a resolute young fellow steps …

15 Feb , 2011  

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers. Great short quote and quotation by: Ralph Waldo Emerson , […]

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George D. Prentice

When a young man complains that a y…

15 Feb , 2011  

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it is a pretty certain sign that she has his. Great short quote and quotation by: George D. Prentice ,

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When I was young I had an elderly f…

15 Feb , 2011  

When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was […]

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J.B. Priestley

When I was young there was no respe…

15 Feb , 2011  

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going. Great short quote and quotation by: J.B. Priestley ,

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Gahan Wilson

When I was young, I used to think t…

15 Feb , 2011  

When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness… I was right. Great short quote and quotation by: Gahan Wilson ,

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Anne Frank

Who would ever think that so much w…

15 Feb , 2011  

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl? Great short quote and quotation by: Anne Frank , German Jewish diarist (1929 – 1945)

Menander, The Double Deceiver

Whom the gods love dies young….

15 Feb , 2011  

Whom the gods love dies young. Great short quote and quotation by: Menander, The Double Deceiver , Greek comic dramatist (342 BC – 292 BC)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

With age come the inner, the higher…

15 Feb , 2011  

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals? Great short quote and quotation by: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, O Magazine, October 2003 , US suffragist (1815 – 1902)

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