A Quote by Amy Lowell

Youth condemns; maturity condones.

Amy Lowell

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Maturity Youth

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Amy Lowell
American - Poet
February 9, 1874 - May 12, 1925

Youth condemns; maturity condones

Amy Lowell

On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones.

Amy Lowell

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

Thomas A. Edison

But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them.

Donald Cargill

Do you want to know what I most regret about my youth? That I didn't dream more boldly and demand of myself more impossible things; for all one does in maturity is to carve in granite or porphyry the soap bubble one blew in youth! Oh to have dreamed harder!

Lewis Mumford

The dreams of youth are the regrets of maturity.

Tim Curry

India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age

Jawaharlal Nehru

There are three stages of life: youth, maturity, and 'My, you're looking good!'

Dwight D. Eisenhower

So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, or whoever condemns me therein, he condemns God and must remain a child of hell.

Martin Luther

The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows.