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“Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”

Source: Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer

“When you see the way things deteriorate before your very eyes. Everything running down hill. It's kind of silly to even think about youth.”

Thinking Way Kind Eye Running Youth Silly Hills

Book:Buried Child

Source: Buried Child

“A silly society is a youth-obsessed society: To the Chinese, who appreciate the value of experience, the greater the ratio in a team of grey 'hairs and no-hairs' to 'black hairs' the faster and better a task will be completed. The opposite assumption obtains in the youth-obsessed U.S.”

Values Black Greater Team Youth Hair Appreciate Tasks Opposites Silly Chinese Faster Obsessed Assumption Grey Ratios Black Hair Grey Hair

Author:Ilana Mercer

“I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.'”

Thinking Bits Youth Internet Silly Brands Downfall

Author:Ernest Cline

“I have listened to much dull and heavy conversation in America, but rarely to any that I could strictly call silly (if I except the every where privileged class of very young ladies).”

Ifs America Young Class Youth Conversation Heavy Silly Dull Foolishness Privileged Young Ladies

Book:Domestic Manners of the Americans

Source: Domestic Manners of the Americans

“We have thought that because children are young they are silly. We have forgotten the blind stirrings, the reaching outward of our own youth.”

Children Young Youth Blind Forgotten Silly Reaching Reach Out Stirring

Book:Writing for Young People

Source: Writing for Young People