“We must always have old memories and young hopes.”

—  Arsène Houssaye

Attributed to Houssaye in: Forty Thousand Sublime and Beautiful Thoughts Gathered from the Roses, Clover Blossoms, Geraniums, Violets, Morning-glories, and Pansies of Literature, Christian Herald, 1915.

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "We must always have old memories and young hopes." by Arsène Houssaye?
Arsène Houssaye photo
Arsène Houssaye 5
French writer 1814–1896
Arsène Houssaye quote: “We must always have old memories and young hopes.”

Related quotes

Diane Ackerman photo

“Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?”

Diane Ackerman (1948) Author, poet, naturalist
Ted Kennedy photo

“For me this is a season of hope -- new hope for a justice and fair prosperity for the many, and not just for the few — new hope.
And this is the cause of my life — new hope that we will break the old gridlock and guarantee that every American — north, south, east, west, young, old — will have decent, quality health care as a fundamental right and not a privilege.”

Ted Kennedy (1932–2009) United States Senator

Source: DNC Speech (2008)

Jello Biafra photo

“And we will NOT let Campbell's Soup, Old Navy, or anybody ELSE, HAMMER into the minds of girls as YOUNG as SIX YEARS OLD that they should ALWAYS hate their bodies and ALWAYS be on a diet!”

Jello Biafra (1958) singer and activist

"Become the Media" (Track 10)
Become the Media (2000)

Aeschylus photo

“Old men are always young enough to learn.”

Aeschylus Agamemnon

Variant translation: Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 584 ( line 583 of Richmond Lattimore's translation http://books.google.com/books?id=3duN7nP3OQYC&q=%22old+men+are+always+young+enough+to+learn%22&pg=PA40#v=onepage)

William Wordsworth photo

“Whether we be young or old,
Our destiny, our being's heart and home,
Is with infinitude, and only there;
With hope it is, hope that can never die,
Effort and expectation, and desire,
And something evermore about to be.”

William Wordsworth book The Prelude

Bk. VI, l. 603.
The Prelude (1799-1805)

Prevale photo

“To be old and wise, you must first be young and crazy.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Per essere vecchi e saggi, bisogna prima essere giovani e folli.
Source: prevale.net

Benjamin Jowett photo

“I hope our young men will not grow into such dodgers as these old men are. I believe everything that a young man says to me”

Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893) Theologian, classical scholar, and academic administrator

Source: Letters, p. 250

Friedrich Nietzsche photo

“Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger!
Once you were young──now you are even younger.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Beyond Good and Evil

Source: Beyond Good and Evil

Malcolm X photo

“The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.”

Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist

Quoted by Alex Haley, after a college campus speech, in the epilogue to The Autobiography.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)

Jane Goodall photo

“So this is my effort to bring back the hope that we must have if we are to change direction.... I think to be fully human, we need to have meaning in our lives, and that's what I am trying to help these young people to find.”

Jane Goodall (1934) British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist

Then & Now: Jane Goodall (2005)

Related topics