“Youth is wasted on the young.” “When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn’t got any.” “People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.” In conclusion, the earliest version of this saying known toQIappeared in December 1902...
Youth is wasted on the young. –George Bernard Shaw
1 Comment on The duty of a champion No such thing as a parttime champion There’s a quote by a modern stoic named Ryan Holiday that I particularly like: The obligation of a champion is to act like a champion at all times. Don’t think I’ve ever lost my cool and was happy about...
where there is no movement, one is always going to feel insecure. Nobody can be liked by everyone, not even the Buddha. Because we have defilements, we are always on the lookout for everybody else’s pollutions. None of that matters, it’s all totally unimportant. The only thing that ...
80. “No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.” 81. “The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.” 82. “He has all the virtues I dislike, and none of the vices I ...
out”, and she continued by presenting a staccato sequence of items of advice aimed at young students. Boldface has been added to excerpts below:[1]1997 June 1, Chicago Tribune, “Advice, Like Youth, Probably Just Wasted on the Young” by Mary Schmich, Page 4C, Chicago, Illinois. (...
Or a buried memory, wasted and worn As the fading frost of a wintry sigh?... Ha! Look there! Look at that house— Mark how it looks! It must have a soul! It looks, it looks, though it cannot stir; See the ribs of it—how they stare!
— A lament for life's wasted sunshine. — A new classification of society to be instituted. Instead of rich and poor, high and low, they are to be classed, — First, by their sorrows... Secondly, all who have the same maladies... Thirdly, all who are guilty of the same sins, ...
I always used to point out that rhetoric is wasted on a Cabinet of hard-boiled politicians.” — Clement Attlee Address to the Oxford University Law Society (14 June 1957), quoted in The Times (15 June 1957), p. 4. 1950s People 0 “Deeply as many people deplored the policy which ...
The clock ticked on with that judicial intonation characteristic of time-pieces that measure sacred time and wasted opportunities. ~Edward Bellamy,Dr. Heidenhoff's Process, 1880 When the night is gone, when the slumber ends, our eyes behold, notto-morrow, — it is againto-day. ~Ellsworth ...