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All Of Us Who Are Worth Anything, Spend Our Manhood In Unlearning The Follies, Or Expiating The Mistakes Of Our Youth.
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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the
follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
-- Shelley
Related:
Hillary's follies! OUR HEALTH!
As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.
-- Douglas Coupland, from _Generation X_ (Tales for an Accelerated Culture)...
Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and du
Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days....
Many of us spend half our life wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
-- Alexander Woollco...
Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse! -- Derwood Finche
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
-- Don Marqui...
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazard
and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. -- Samuel Adam...
Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by the supreme ordinance of a parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselve
and He loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill....