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“Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure.”

Looks Stories Youth Endure Lovely Torment Elders Afar

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“Your grandparents did not endure the indignities of a steerage journey to Ellis Island so that you could stand outside a discothèque and beg a wallpaper designer to take you in with him.”

Journey Youth Endure Islands Designer Grandparent Standing Out Indignity Ellis Island

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy.”

“Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span; Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man; Delight becomes death-longing if all longing else be vain.”

Ifs Men Life Giving Remember Asks Youth Longing Endure Delight Cease Vain Long Life

Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays

“A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.”

Men Love Age Time Youth Endure Meat Appetite Age And Youth Misspent Youth

Author:William Shakespeare

“The aim of education is to develop resources in the child that will contribute to his well-being as long as life endures; to develop power of self-mastery that he may never be a slave to indulgence or other weaknesses, to develop [strong] manhood, beautiful womanhood that in every child and every youth may be found at least the promise of a friend, a companion, one who later may be fit for husband or wife, an exemplary father or a loving intelligent mother, one who can face life with courage, meet disaster with fortitude, and face death without fear.”

“Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death, were it not for literature. It grants us what nature does not: a golden time that doesn't rust, a springtime that never wilts, cloudless happiness and eternal youth. [my translation]”

Doe Would Be Literature Youth Eternal Constant Endure Wounds Golden Grants Translations Heartbeat Bleeding Springtime Rust Eternal Youth

Author:Ludwig Borne

“O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies not plenty; Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.”

“I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage: but doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.”

Thinking Men World Should May Long Said Age Dies Chance Brain Careers Youth Humour Broken Paper Married Endure Sentences Wit Odd Meat Awe Appetite Bullets Bachelors Remnants Quirks Quip

Author:William Shakespeare

“True friendship is worth more than can be measured, a quality forever to be treasured. True friends will staunchly stand beside each other, as loyally brother shieldeth brother, remaining firm in spite of war and strife, in poverty or sickness, throughout life. True friendship doth endure while comrades age from boy to youth, from warrior to sage.”

War Age Quality Boys Poverty Forever Youth Brother Endure Warrior Firm Spite Sickness Strife Sage True Friend True Friendship Comrade True Life Treasured

Author:Cecilia Dart-Thornton