“Arcadians both, in youth both flourishing,
Both match'd to sing, to answer both prepar'd.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Bucolicks
“It's both ludicrous and embarrassing to recall one's youth.”
Snæfríður
Íslandsklukkan (Iceland's Bell) (1946), Part II: The Fair Maiden
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Source: Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book III. Jason and Medea, Lines 1022–1024
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Crabbed Age and Youth.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
Context: Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong. Let them agree to differ; for who knows but what agreeing to differ may not be a form of agreement rather than a form of difference?
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Source: Letter to his daughter (1978), p. 20.
Context: The favourite slogan, the one that caught on during the May 1968 fête in France was "it is forbidden to forbid". There is nothing to forbid the youth of Europe to reject both communism and capitalism. What will they build in the absence of both systems? Will their concept of building a new structure with a new philosophy mean willful self-destruction? This sounds insane but the youth of Europe is not insane.
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
Speech on May 1, 1937, quoted in John S. Conway, The Nazi Persecution of the Churches, 1933-45 (New York, NY, Basic Books, 1968), p. 178
1930s
Henry Giles (1809–1882) Irish minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 287.
“It's one of those secrets that's embarrassing to acknowledge, but we do love our students.”
Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author
Address at Mount Holyoke College (2006)
Joni Mitchell (1943) Canadian musician
"Both Sides Now"
Songs
Variant: I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now,
From up and down, and still somehow
It’s cloud illusions I recall,
I really don’t know clouds at all.