The wine of youth does not always
clear with advancing years;
sometimes it grows turbid.
- Carl Jung
Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife.
Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life.
But as we go our sordid sep'rate ways,
We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days.
Hearts full of youth,
Hearts full of truth,
Six parts gin to one part vermouth.
- Tom Lehrer - song: Bright College Days,
album: An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,
but delicious in the years of maturity.
- Albert Einstein
Youth, large, lusty, loving -
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you
with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Take a course in good water and air;
and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own.
Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
- John Muir
As long as any adult thinks that he,
like the parents and teachers of old,
can become introspective,
invoking his own youth to understand
the youth before him,
he is lost.
- Margaret Mead
The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous.
Then life has a newness, a youth;
then life has a flow and freshness.
Then life has so many surprises.
And when life has so many surprises,
boredom never settles in you.
- Osho
The youth gets together his materials
to build a bridge to the moon,
or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth,
and, at length, the middle-aged man
concludes to build a woodshed with them.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not possible for civilization to
flow backwards while there is youth in the world.
Youth may be headstrong,
but it will advance its allotted length.
- Helen Keller
Nothing is more dangerous to tradition
than the creative imagination of youth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth.
It makes all things alive and significant.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The search after the great men is the dream of youth,
and the most serious occupation of manhood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
- Anonymous
Probably the happiest period in life
most frequently is in middle age,
when the eager passions of youth are cooled,
and the infirmities of age not yet begun;
as we see that the shadows,
which are at morning and evening so large,
almost entirely disappear at midday.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
I care not much for a man's religion
whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln
The time-traveling is just too dangerous.
Better that I devote myself to study
the other great mystery of the universe - women!
- the movie Back to the Future II
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better
by all parties to leave the past to history,
especially as I propose to write that history myself.
- Winston Churchill
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I always avoid prophesying beforehand,
because it is a much better policy to prophesy
after the event has already taken place.
- Winston Churchill
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day.
I think the Church would suit me better.
- Winston Churchill
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool,
than to speak and remove all doubt.
- sometimes attributed to Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, or Samuel Johnson
I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
- Neil Young
Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
The man who reads nothing at all
is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Because we believe that our ethnic group,
our society, our political party, our God,
is better than your God, we kill each other.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken
Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A "No" uttered from deepest conviction
is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please,
or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
How many things there are concerning which we might
well deliberate whether we had better know them.
- Henry David Thoreau
The world is a better place because I am here.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Vision stands on the shoulders of what is actual
to get a better view of what is possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I release the familiar that I may better discover my inspiring future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I like the silent church before the service begins,
better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to conquer yourself
than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
- The Buddha
Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed
are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
- Thomas Jefferson
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