#youth

Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#change #i #look #makes #people

In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.' ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#girl #now #say #were #words

People equate success with youth. And if you haven't had a certain amount of success by a certain time in your life, it's never going to happen. There's a fear about that. So people start lying about their age really young. I've never done that because I think it's so insignificant. ↗

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

#age #amount #because #certain #certain time

I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front. ↗

— Stephen Lewis

#cia #footnote #front #i #just

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick. ↗

— Mary Wilson Little

#first #girl #himself #his #makes

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#illusion #lost #those #who #youth

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#different #less #old #old age #pleasures

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#because #long #old #old age #ready

I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#could #damn #feared #i #life

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death. ↗

— Rollo May

#also #being #beyond #childhood #creativity