“The Secretary, working in the Dismal Swamp betimes next morning, was informed that a youth waited in the hall who gave the name of Sloppy. The footman who communicated this intelligence made a decent pause before uttering the name, to express that it was forced on his reluctance by the youth in question, and that if the youth had had the good sense and good taste to inherit some other name it would have spared the feelings of him the bearer.” IfsMadeFeelingsFunnyNextNamesMorningYouthTasteHumorousDecentHallsSecretaryPausesGood SenseGood TasteSwampsSloppyReluctance Book:Our Mutual Friend Source: Our Mutual Friend
“Both Miss Lavinia and Miss Clarissa had a superstition, however, that he would have declared his passion, if he had not been cut short in his youth (at about sixty) by over-drinking his constitution, and over-doing an attempt to set it right again by swilling Bath water.” IfsFunnyPassionWaterCuttingMissingYouthHumorousConstitutionDrinkingSuperstitionsSixtyBathsLavinia Book:Charles Dickens Six Pack: Six Dickens Classics Source: Charles Dickens Six Pack: Six Dickens Classics
“You are never too old to become younger!” AgeYouthHumorousAgingWittyOld AgeMaturitySarcasticParadoxOld PeopleYouthfulnessAge And YouthStaying Young Author:Mae West
“Ask the young. They know everything.” KnowsChildrenYoungTimeAsksYouthHumorousParenting Author:Joseph Joubert
“Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.” ChildrenYouthHumorousParentingCharacteristicsContemptJuvenileSnobbery Book:An Experiment in Criticism Source: An Experiment in Criticism
“I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion.” IfsFunnyYouthAmbitionHumorousDinnerEach DaySmokingResolutionLunchCigarDisillusionSmoking Cigars Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“The fact that Americans drag around the world by the busloads to glimpse the past probably has something to do with the youth of our country. We revere anything older than George Burns.” WorldCountryFactsFunnyAmericaPastYouthHumorousOur CountryAround The WorldDragGlimpse Author:Erma Bombeck