A Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before.
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youth looks at its world and age looks through it; youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it, while age can, with luck, achieve a cosmic private harmony unsuited for action as a rule.
I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full sport, age's breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee.
And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
What an exciting age it is we live in
With all this talk about the hope of youth
And nothing made of youth.
Memories and loneliness look backward, fear looks around, but faith always looks forward.
Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.
No More Avengers! There's nothing new to get out of it - I want to go forward, not backward.
Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.
Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.
I understand that many young men and women are coming forward to join Youth Congress. I am not surprised. It is only natural. The vast majority of our youth is sober and idealistic. It looks forward to an era of disciplined, planned, constructive activity.
If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It will get away with anything, while age Knows only too well that it has got away with nothing.
Nothing before, nothing behind; The steps of faith Fall on the seeming void, and find The Rock beneath.
Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.
When we go on about the big things, the political situation, global warming, world poverty, it all looks really terrible, with nothing getting better, nothing to look forward to. But when I think small, closer in - you know, a girl I've just met, or this song we're going to do with Chas, or snowboarding next month, then it looks great. So this is going to be my motto - think small.
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