“It is impossible to look young unless one is young.”

— Brigitte Bardot

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French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist 1934

Sid Tepper (1918–2015) American songwriter

Song The Young Ones

“Mrs Prentice: You put me in an impossible position.
Nick: No position is impossible when you're young and healthy.”

Joe Orton (1933–1967) English playwright and author

What the Butler Saw (1969), Act I

“Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.”

Thornton Wilder The Matchmaker

Dolly Levi, in Act 4 http://books.google.com/books?id=MAEJ8VP0rMYC&q=%22Money+is+like+manure+it's+not+worth+a+thing+unless+it's+spread+around+encouraging+young+things+to+grow%22&pg=PA110#v=onepage
Source: The Matchmaker (1954)

“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and so they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.”

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer

As quoted in An Apple for the Teacher: Fundamentals for Instructional Computing (1983) by George H. Culp and Herbert N. Nickles, p. 190; also in Youth Quake: A Manifesto (2002) by Cousin Sam, p. 31

“We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible… So we will do them anyway.”

William Wilberforce (1759–1833) English politician

“Nothing is less promising than precociousness; the young thistle looks much more like a future tree than the young oak.”

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer

Nichts ist weniger verheißend als Frühreife; die junge Distel sieht einem zukünftigen Baume viel ähnlicher als die junge Eiche.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 27.

“The whole world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young, and everlastingly harp on the fact they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution which would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curses of the world.”

Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist

The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks (1949)

“John O'Hara was a terrible bore as a young man—always looking for a fight, and making sure he never found one.”

John O'Hara (1905–1970) American journalist

Oscar Levant, as quoted in "Oscar the Magnificent" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/161384355/ by Burt Prelutsky, in The Los Angeles Times (January 26, 1969), p. 468

“John O'Hara was a terrible bore as a young man—always looking for a fight, and making sure he never found one.”

Oscar Levant (1906–1972) American comedian, composer, pianist and actor

Oscar Levant, as quoted in "Oscar the Magnificent" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/161384355/

“But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

“It is impossible to look young unless one is young.”

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