Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

Old soldiers never die. Young ones do.

Metermaids eat their young.

There is nothing sadder than a young pessimist.

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

If I had as much make-up on as he did, I'd have looked younger, too.

Treaties are like roses and young girls -- they last while they last

Young girls are the biological equivalent of "new car smell.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

I'm just happy for the young lady.

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and left, as its young beauty fled, an ashen memory in its stead.

A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Can't I live while I'm young

These young Americans sent a message to terrorists everywhere ... You can run but you can't hide. (On US pilots who captured four terrorists)

Today's family is built like a pyramid with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and needs focused on the untrained, vulnerable, insecure, young, inexperienced and incompetent parental apex ... about whose incompetence our vaunted educational system does nothing.

The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.

I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. [Speaking Of Winston Churchill]

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young men of this mealy generation the courage of their confusion.

Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

None think the great unhappy, but the great.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.

I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets.

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.

There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.

And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.

The glory of young men is their strength, and the beauty of old men is their gray head.

E.L. Think about it Josh, you're in college. The window of opportunity to drink and do drugs and take advantage of young girls is getting smaller by the day

Hollywood gives a young girl the aura of one giant, self-contained orgy farm, its inhabitants dedicated to crawling into every pair of pants they can find.

The joy that isn't shared dies young.

A young girl, Carmen Cohen, was called by her last name by her father, and her first name by her mother. By the time she was ten, didn't know if she was Carmen or Cohen.

Minerva House was ''a finishing establishment for young ladies,'' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.