#youth

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#allowed #eve #forced #late #middle

O youth! The strenght of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it! (...) I think of her with pleasure, with affection, with regret - as you would think of some one dead you have loved. I shall never forget her.... Pass the bottle. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#faith

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#posterity #trustees #youth

Youth is the trustee of prosperity. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#prosperity #youth

Acting is a youthful profession. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#profession #youthful

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#fear #few #few women #had #i

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#capable #comradeship #each #enter #foundation

Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers. ↗

— James Ellroy

#fanatical #get #people #readers #rock

I’ve officially turned into a loser,” she whispered cynically. “I’m looking forward to going home and having cereal for dinner and walking Mitchell and studying a little and then going to sleep. I’ve had my ‘going out and having fun’ quota for the year, I guess, and it’s June. ↗

— Daniel Amory

#city #downtown #dream #law-school-school #love

One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that way. He did. ↗

— Daniel Amory

#adventure #chicago #city #downtown #dream