Young

Famous quotes containing the word young:

    The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.
    François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    So far as I am concerned, dear, I promise you that very soon I’ll settle down again and write another long three-volume novel, suitable for the most genteel of young women.
    —Jan Read. Robert Day. James Rankin (Boris Karloff)

    Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
    André Gide (1869–1951)