YOUTH QUOTES II
quotations about youth
In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves
For a bright manhood, there is no such word
As "fail".
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
Richelieu
That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.
ROBERT HERRICK
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Youth is an essence as much as it is a phase of life.
JULIAN KIMBLE
"At Trillectro, youth is not wasted", Washington Post, August 28, 2016
Youth is about giving fresh blood a chance.
AARON MOOY
"Harry Kewell in Australia: Socceroos icon on youth development, national side", Sportal, March 16, 2017
It is with youth as with plants; from the first fruits they bear we learn what may be expected in future.
DEMOPHILUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Beautiful is the bloom of youth, but it lasts only for a short time.
THEOCRITUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Youth is but an insecure custodian.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.
PHILIP PULLMAN
The Golden Compass
He whom the gods love dies young.
MENANDER
attributed, Day's Collacon
O my youth abandoned
Like a withered garland
Here comes the season
Of regret and reason
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE
"O My Youth Abandoned", Selected Poems
Youth is only ever fun in retrospect.
SUNDARA KARMA
"Youth is Only Ever Fun in Retrospect"
Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
The Rescue
When beautiful youth is gone, not much of life remains.
G. ULTHORN
attributed, Day's Collacon
When I was young, I could bounce back from things like a brand-new rubber ball.
KOBO ABE
The Ghost is Here
Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.
AMBROSE BIERCE
"The Moonlit Road"
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. ROWLING
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
When you're young, you think you can handle anything. By the time you find out otherwise, it's already too late. You got a stocking wrapped around your neck.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Dance, Dance, Dance
All lovely things will have an ending,
All lovely things will fade and die,
And youth, that's now so bravely spending,
Will beg a penny by and by.
CONRAD AIKEN
"All Lovely Things"
My salad days;
When I was green in judgment.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Antony and Cleopatra
All of us who are worth anything spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
letter to John Gisborne, Nov. 16, 1819