Cornerstones

Quotations, Various

Cornerstones highlights thought-provoking quotes from notable folks.

You are never too old to become younger!
Mae West

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
Herbert Hoover

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
Sophia Loren

Youth has no age.
Pablo Picasso

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
Kurt Cobain

The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.
Coretta Scott King

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
1 Timothy 4:12 (KJV)

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche

If youth knew; if age could.
Sigmund Freud

To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.
Maya Angelou

In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.
Pope Paul VI

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
Brigitte Bardot

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Aristotle

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