“Youth, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.”

— Ambrose Bierce, book The Devil's Dictionary

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

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American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabu… 1842–1914

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Vergil in Averno (1987)

“Seven cities warred for Homer being dead,
Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head.”

Thomas Heywood (1574–1641) English playwright, actor, and author

Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells (1635). Compare: "Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did 'go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 6.

“Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always.”

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

“Every historic period has had its Cassandras. Our era is the first in which prophecies of doom stem from objective scientific analyses.”

Bernard Lown (1921–2021) American cardiologist developer of the DC defibrillator and the cardioverter, as well as a recipient of the…

A Prescription for Hope (1985)

“Bradman is a whole class above any batsman who has ever lived: if Archimedes, Newton and Gauss remain in the Hobbs class, I have to admit the possibility of a class above them, which I find difficult to imagine. They had better be moved from now on into the Bradman class.”

G. H. Hardy book A Mathematician's Apology

Quoted by C. P. Snow in his introduction to reprints of the book.
A Mathematician's Apology (1941)

“Infancy, n. The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, 'Heaven lies about us.' The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.”

Ambrose Bierce book The Devil's Dictionary

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

“The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.”

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist

Early Art
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part IX - A Painter's Views on Painting

“Hoddan felt the anger any man feels when he sees betrayal of that honor a competent machine represents.”

Murray Leinster book The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 7

“Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.”

Edward Bellamy (1850–1898) American author and socialist

Source: Looking Backward, 2000-1887 http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/lkbak10.txt (1888), Ch. 6.

“Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own.”

Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) American protestant theologian

Source: (1932), p.2

“Youth, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.”

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