Youngest Person

Famous quotes containing the words youngest person, youngest and/or person:

“Miss Mary Emerson is here,—the youngest person in Concord, though about eighty,—and the most apprehensive of a genuine thought; earnest to know of your inner life; most stimulating society; and exceedly witty withal. She says they called her old when she was young, and she has never grown any older. I wish you could see her.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

““Where the tree of knowledge stands, there is always paradise”: thus speak the oldest and the youngest serpents.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with the person they love.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)