“Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a tempermental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease. This often exists in a man of fifty, more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals.” PeopleMenYearsMindMeanMatterStatesGrowsImaginationNumbersEmotionQualityBoysYouthAdventureSpringRedIdealsTwentiesLipsEaseKneesFiftyAppetiteState Of MindTemperCheeksVigorFreshnessTimidityRed LipsSupple Author:Samuel Ullman
“The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.” IfsKnowsLawDifferencesBoysKingsKingdomsManagersShadePassagesCandleCheeksDepartedIgnoblePlutoCobblersSmall Differences Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)
“I would still have old ladies come up to me after the show and pat me on the cheek after I had said all this vulgar stuff. They would be like, 'Oh you're a silly boy - we know you're just playing.” KnowsSaidStillsShowsWould BeStuffBoysCome UpSillyCheeksVulgarOld LadySilly Boy Author:Dane Cook
“Like most Catholic boys, I wanted to be Jesus Christ. I could never get the turn-the-other-cheek thing down, though.” WantedTurnsJesusChristBoysJesus ChristCatholicCheeksTurn The Other Cheek Author:Jim Carrey