大学英语：On Youth

1、All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. - Aristotle，Greek philosopherWhat we do with our leisure time has considerable bearing on what we accomplish during our working hours, and very largely determines the degree of our success, Young men who, like yourselves, devote a predetermined amount of their leisure hours to study and to serious thinking, are the men who are going to progress far and fast. The

2、business leaders of tomorrow will be the young men of todaymen like you who are preparing now for the great future which lies ahead. You may view the future with confidence, knowing that from the youth of today will emerge the leaders of tomorrow. - Thomas J. Watson, Founder, chairman & president of IBMThe youth of today and the youth of tomorrow will be accorded an almost unequaled opportunity for great accomplishment and for human service. - Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, American educator, presi

3、dent of Columbia UniversityMen and nations can only be reformed in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow old. - Jean Jacques Rousseau, Swiss-born French philosopher, educationist & authorWe cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd US presidentAdvanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness. It

4、is the finest insurance against old age, against the growth of physical disability, against the lack and loss of animal delights. How essential it is, then, in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls. - William Lyon Phelps, college professor, authorIn my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them. - Napolon Buonaparte , French Emperor Y

5、outh is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. - General Douglas MacArthur, United States General of the ArmyYouth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.- Franz K

6、afka, Czech writerIt is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confidence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance. Seeing nothing that can darken or embarrass the question, they expect to find their own opinion universally prevalent, and are inclined to impute uncertainty and hesitation to want of honesty, rather than of knowledge. - Dr. Samuel Johnson, English poet, critic, lexicographerYouth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret. - Benjamin Disraeli, British prime minister, author

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