The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
Edmund Burke
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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
JOHANN VON GOETHE He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our help...
EDMUND BURKE Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO The foundation of all free government and all social order must be laid in families and in the disci...
NOAH WEBSTER Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
HOSEA BALLOU Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasance, age full of care; Youth like...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Arrogance is worse than ignorance, seeing as ignorance can be cured, but arrogance must be purged.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER We were young and had the arrogance of youth, nevertheless when you look at the issues we fought ove...
KEN FOLLET We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepar...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI He who wants to warm himself in old age must build a fireplace in his youth
GERMAN PROVERB Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show;
We may our ends by our beginnings know.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
SIR JOHN DENHAM All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side o...
THEODORE BIKEL Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be ord...
XUN KUANG The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dom...
EDMUND BURKE By Time and Age full many things are taught.
AESCHYLUS Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT Some have the wisdom of old age and the energy of youth. Most have the wisdom of youth, and the ener...
UNKNOWN It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by c...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for ...
B. CARROLL REECE Be wise in time. What youth sows, old age must reap....Sow to yourself rather in righteousness: brea...
J.C. RYLE Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
MASON COOLEY Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS When your youth is about to enter in old age it shouldn't wonder, what happened? it must say, well d...
AMIT KALANTRI We must submit to God's righteous rule.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorit...
CICERO The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorit...
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أنيس منصور Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
ANNE BRADSTREET You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy
JOHN CALVIN You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
JOHN CALVIN A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors w...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
SENECA The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and...
SAM HOUSTON Sport must be accessible to working class youth.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
MARY ALICE MESSENGER That we may live to see England once more possess a free Monarchy and a privileged and prosperous Pe...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.
UNKNOWN It's easy to appreciate womanhood without any consideration of age. Youth isn't the automatic turn-o...
DAVID GRANGER Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and ...
MAHATMA GANDHI Age considers; youth ventures.
RAUPACH Youth has no age.
PABLO PICASSO Age considers; youth ventures.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
FREDRICH Christian children should be taught at an early age that everything they receive is because of God...
MONICA JOHNSON So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble...
JOHN ENTWISTLE Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
ALFRED VIGNY Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
ALFRED VICTOR VIGNY The defects of our youth sustain us in old age.
MARTY RUBIN Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
JONATHAN SWIFT Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
DANIEL DEFOE Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
DANIEL DEFOE Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
DORIS DAY The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
GORDON LIGHTFOOT The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taug...
CARL R. ROGERS Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the in...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Anyone under the age of 18 (attending) must be picked up by an adult. Twenty (years old) is the olde...
ANTHONY BAILEY A leader must be taught or made to know the importance of justice for the people.
SUNDAY ADELAJA I was taught at an early age to be humble, ... All my family taught me that. You can't forget where ...
BRYSON SUMLIN By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your ...
MARYA MANNES To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.
UNKNOWN A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
MADAME DE STAEL A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
GERMAINE DE STAEL Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
BENJAMIN HAYDON Beauty fades, but knowledge is eternal
ANDREW FAIRCHILD The "control of nature" is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology a...
RACHEL CARSON TO GAIN POWER OVER YOURSELF YOU MUST FIRST SUBMIT TO THE GOD IN YOU....
SHENIKWA MALONE The teaching of godliness must be preached and taught in every available medium.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Middle age is youth without its levity,/ And age without decay.
DANIEL DEFOE The energy of youth with the experience of age is a lethal combination.
MURAD S. SHAH The foolishness of youth with the cynicism of age is a dangerous combination.
MURAD S. SHAH We must submit to the refining process in order to become a part of something greater than ourselves...
ANGEL DYKES Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
JOHN DRYDEN Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
MARGARET MEAD A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine bu...
ROBERTSON DAVIES If youth knew; if age could.
SIGMUND FREUD Cherish youth, but trust old age.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB If youth knew; if age could.
HENRI ESTIENNE An Idle youth, a needy Age.
GEORGE HERBERT The three ages of man: youth, middle age, and "You're looking wonderful!"
DORE SCHARY Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
GARSON KANIN The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.
ROBINSON JEFFERS The heads of strong old age are beautiful / Beyond all grace of youth
ROBINSON JEFFERS Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdo...
LEONARDO DA VINCI By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the m...
UNKNOWN [The tragedy and its remembrance, fueled by the ballad] The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald ... We ar...
GORDON LIGHTFOOT I am sensitive soul; I feel with the moon,
I use to be judged for my indifference, now I see t...
NIKKI ROWE A face to lose youth for, to occupy age
With the dream of, meet death with.
ROBERT BROWNING What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew
ROBERT BROWNING We'll never be as young as we are tonight.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK It occured to me that we will never be young again.
ANTHONY SWOFFORD Distant singing is heard. Ghostly voices become audible: fragments of lectures remembered, the finel...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS To the young there are no degrees of old just as there are no degrees of dead - either you are, or y...
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EDMUND BURKE The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it w...
EDMUND BURKE He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoder...
EDMUND BURKE Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
EDMUND BURKE