Thomas A. Edison Quotes
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Thomas A. Edison
Quotes to Explore
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
Barbara Pym
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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.
Isaac Barrow
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Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.
B. Carroll Reece
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Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
Ralph Fiennes
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When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.
T. B. Joshua
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The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Isaac D'Israeli
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Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.
Ed Smith
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I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, 'Youth With a Mission.' I was a kid - I was 18 - and did some work with homeless people. Really, trying to convert people is sort of an awful position to find yourself in, so I quickly, on my own, grew out of religious ideas.
Nathaniel Rateliff
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
Walter Savage Landor
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Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother: I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.
William Shakespeare
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English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable English Theatre.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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'Will you be wanting to contest the divorce?' I asked Mrs. Davis.'I should think not,' she said calmly, 'although I suppose on of us should, for the fun of the thing. An uncontested divorce always seems to me contrary to the spirit of divorce.'
Donald Barthelme
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I have many enemies and they all think I'm being highfalutin calling it performance, but the word "reading" has a connotation of something academic with the lights on and you're going to get a lecture. I'm looking to blow my audiences away by giving a fine, dramatic performance and reminding them of why they love stories.
T. C. Boyle
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When you lift off, the pressure is supposed to be maximum. But actually, it was very benign. Very enjoyable. But as soon as the engines cut off and you get to zero gravity, you felt as if you were being pushed off your seat. You feel disoriented. You don't feel aligned with anything. I felt for a few good hours that I was falling.
Kalpana Chawla
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Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Thomas A. Edison
