Famous quotes containing the words young, adult and/or literature:
“The men are magnificentthe young men tall, well formed, and admirably dressed; the old men positively beautiful, with their fresh complexions, white hair, and admirable neatness. Nothing struck me more than this, and we might copy it to advantage here. As an Englishman grows older he becomes more and more careful in his dress.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (18261903)
“An air lambent with adult enterprise ...”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.”
—17th-century English proverb, pt. 1, quoted in Isaac dIsraeli, Curiosities of Literature (1834)
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