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
Oh happy youth! life's oasis of beauty!
What time in after years so pure and sweet?
Free from the lab'ring progress of great manhood,
It treads life's pathway with elastic feet!
C. B. LANGSTON
"Youth"
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
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
We are young only once, after that we need some other excuse.
ANONYMOUS
When beautiful youth is gone, not much of life remains.
G. ULTHORN
attributed, Day's Collacon
The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there must be something vital to rebel against and if the elderly stiffly refuse to put up a vigorous front of their own, it leaves the entire situation in a mist.
JANE ADDAMS
The Second Twenty Years at Hull-House
Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.
ROB SHEFFIELD
Love is a Mix Tape
Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages.
FRANCIS BACON
Essays
Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.
FRANK HERBERT
Chapterhouse: Dune
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
There is a very prevalent tenet with youth, that good company is every thing desirable, and that bad is even better than none.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Richard III
Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.
AMBROSE BIERCE
"The Moonlit Road"
The mirror of my youth will never lie.
BARBARA O'SULLIVAN
"The Mirror of My Youth", The Steel Mirror: Sonnets and Poems
A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
The problem with this generation of youth is that they are scared of taking risks and are not passionate enough to go out and create the future they want to experience.
CLAUDIA TURBAY QUINTERO
"Take advantage of opportunities to improve yourselves", Graphic Online, March 16, 2017
He whom the gods love dies young.
MENANDER
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
Youth is only ever fun in retrospect.
SUNDARA KARMA
"Youth is Only Ever Fun in Retrospect"