A Quote by Oscar Wilde

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Oscar Wilde

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Gods Grow Love Those Whom Young

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Oscar Wilde
Irish - Poet
October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900

When the Greeks said, Whom the gods love die young, they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful.

Eric Hoffer

Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still.

William Cartwright

Love makes those young whom age doth chill, And whom he finds young, keeps still.

William Cartwright

Whom the gods love dies young.

Menander

He whom the Gods love dies young.

Plautus

Whom the Gods love die young no matter how long they live.

Elbert Hubbard

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt those whom we love that the guilt with which we are born becomes intolerable, and since all those whom we love intensely and continuously grow part of us, and since we hate ourselves in them, so we torture ourselves and them together.

Cyril Connolly

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus

He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health, perception, and judgment. [Lat., Quem dii diligunt, Adolescens moritur, dum valet, sentit, sapit.]

Plautus

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.

Thomas Jefferson

Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.

Franz Grillparzer

Sadly enough, my young friends, it is a characteristic of our age that if people want any gods at all, they want them to be gods who do not demand much, comfortable gods, smooth gods who not only don't rock the boat but don't even row it, gods who pat us on the head, make us giggle, then tell us to run along and pick marigolds.

Jeffrey R. Holland

In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math.

Niall Ferguson

Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and the unspeakable, the revealed and the unrevealed, that which is clear and that which is hidden: since, just as the Gods have made the goods of sense common to all, but those of intellect only to the wise, so the myths state the existence of Gods to all, but who and what they are only to those who can understand.

Sallust

I love you, don’t I? And the gods know you are definitely not easy to deal with. (Aimee) Thanks, Aim. By the way I still have a tiny bit of confidence left. Please make sure you stomp on it too while you’re at it. Gods forbid it should actually grow into something called self-esteem. (Fang)