#youth

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#fifty #forty #old #old age #youth

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#beautiful #become #both #bring #day

The eye of youth is very observant. Youth has its moments of keen intuition, even normal youth -- but the intuition of those who stand mi-way between the sexes is so ruthless, so poignant, so deadly, as to be in the nature of an added scourge... ↗

— Radclyffe Hall

#gay-teen #lesbian #lgbt #lgbtq #queer

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age. ↗

— Dorothy Dix

#age #cannot #dependence #indulging #old

Hold fast to life and youth. ↗

— Elizabeth Arden

#hold #life #youth

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. ↗

— Aristotle

#formed #good #good habits #habits #make

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#away #direction #former #had #human

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world. ↗

— Jane Austen

#being #called #charming #diffidence #girl

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth. ↗

— Cleveland Abbe

#inevitable #life #long #long life #outlive

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#cocktail #cop #culture #down #guns