Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. Cyril Connolly Youth You May Also Like Young men are fitter to invent than to judge. By Francis Bacon Creativity, Invention, Memorable, Short, Youth In youth is pleasure. By Robert Wever Pleasure, Youth Youth is wasted on the young. By Anonymous Youth You’re only young once. By Anonymous Life, Motivational, Youth The young are in a state like intoxication, for youth is sweet and they are growing. By Aristotle Growth, Life, Youth Youth is like spring, an overpraised season. By Samuel Butler Spring, Youth You May Also Like from Cyril Connolly Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder, by authorities whom we do not control. By Cyril Connolly Memory We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy. By Cyril Connolly Happiness, Passion If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom. By Cyril Connolly Cowardice, Failure, Life, Vain, Wisdom No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us—something more than we could learn ourselves, from a book. By Cyril Connolly Age, Aging, Middle Age, Wisdom Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. By Cyril Connolly Excellence, Reputation The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. By Cyril Connolly Fear, Loneliness, Solitude
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge. By Francis Bacon Creativity, Invention, Memorable, Short, Youth
The young are in a state like intoxication, for youth is sweet and they are growing. By Aristotle Growth, Life, Youth
Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder, by authorities whom we do not control. By Cyril Connolly Memory
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy. By Cyril Connolly Happiness, Passion
If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom. By Cyril Connolly Cowardice, Failure, Life, Vain, Wisdom
No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us—something more than we could learn ourselves, from a book. By Cyril Connolly Age, Aging, Middle Age, Wisdom
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. By Cyril Connolly Fear, Loneliness, Solitude
