A
sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old
worn-out body.
-- Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great
Roman Orator, Politician
As I
approve of a youth that has something of the old man
in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that
has something of the youth. He that follows this
rule may be old in body, but can never be so in
mind.
-- Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great
Roman Orator, Politician
Youth
is a period of missed opportunities.
-- Cyril Connolly
1903-1974, British
Critic
I
remember my youth and the feeling that will never
come back any more --the feeling that I could last
for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men;
the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to
perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the
triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life
in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that
with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small,
and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon
--before life itself.
-- Joseph Conrad
1857-1924,
Polish-born British Novelist
