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Young men soon give and soon forget affronts;
Old age is slow in both.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Cato (act II, sc. 5)
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Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death.
It dreams a rest, if not more deep,
More grateful than this marble sleep;
It hears a voice within it tell:
Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.
'Tis all perhaps which man acquires,
But 'tis not what our youth desires.
Author: Matthew Arnold
Source: Youth and Calm (l. 19)
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Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for
execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for
settled business.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Of Youth and Age
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I was between
A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy,
A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.
Author: Richard Harris Barham
Source: Aunt Fanny
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Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and
flourishing in an immortal youth.
Author: Isaac Barrow
Source: Duty of Thanksgiving--Works (vol. I, p. 66)
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Our youth we can have but to-day;
We may always find time to grow old.
Author: Anthony Berkeley (A.B. Cox) (used pseudonym Francis Iles)
Source: Can Love be Controlled by Advice?
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Young fellows will be young fellows.
Author: Isaac Bickerstaff
Source: Love in a Village (II, 2)
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They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We will remember them.
Author: Laurence Binyon
Source: For the Fallen
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Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,
But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.
These laid the world away: poured out the red
Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be
Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene
That men call age, and those who would have been
Their sons, they gave their immortality.
Author: Rupert Brooke
Source: The Dead
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Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When
two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the
sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.
Author: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Source: What Will He Do With It? (bk. II, heading of ch. XV)
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Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Childe Harold (canto II, st. 23)
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Her years
Were ripe, they might make six-and-twenty springs;
But there are forms which Time to touch forbears.
And turns aside his scythe to vulgar things.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto V, st. 98)
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And both were young, and one was beautiful.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: The Dream (st. 2)
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Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what
it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Essays--Schiller
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him,
so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the
youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can
never be so in mind.
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Cato; or, An Essay on Old Age
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The chief recommendation [in a young man] is modesty, then
dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.
[Lat., Prima commendiato proficiscitur a modestia tum pietate in
parentes, tum in suos benevolentia.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Officiis (II, 13)
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Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth.
[Lat., Teneris, heu, lubrica moribus aetas!]
Author: Claudian (Claudianus)
Source: De Raptu Proserpinoe (III, 227)
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Life went a-Maying
With Nature, Hope, and Poesy;
When I was young!
When I was young?--Ah, woful when!
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: Youth and Age
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A young Apollo, golden haired,
Stands dreaming on the verge of strife,
Magnificently unprepared
For the long littleness of life.
Author: Mrs. Frances Macdonald Cornford
Source: On Rupert Brooke
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Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise,
We love the play-place of our early days;
The scene is touching, and the heart is stone,
That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Tirocinium (l. 296)
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Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show;
We may our ends by our beginnings know.
Author: Sir John Denham
Source: Of Prudence (l. 225)
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Aureng-Zebe (act III, sc. 1)
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The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I
no longer belong to it.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Aureng-Zebe (act III, sc. 1)
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Olympian bards who sung
Divine ideas below,
Which always find us young
And always keep us so.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Essays--The Poet
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An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age.
[Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.]
Author: Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus
Source: Fam. Coll., quoted as a proverb invented by Satan
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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.
Author: Conrad Aiken
Source: None
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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: None
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
Author: Sir James M. Barrie
Source: None
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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Lamentations 3:27
Author: Bible
Source: None
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: None
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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
Author: Lord Chesterfield
Source: None
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No man knows he is young while he is young.
Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton
Source: None
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Author: Marcus T. Cicero
Source: None
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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
Author: Cyril Connolly
Source: None
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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Source: None
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Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
Author: Euripides
Source: None
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Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.
Author: Dame Mary Gilmore
Source: None
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On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.
Author: Hafiz
Source: None
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Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.
Author: Jan De Hartog
Source: None
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I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.
Author: Howard M. Jones
Source: None
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The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
Author: Carl Jung
Source: None
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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Author: Franz Kafka
Source: None
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It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
Author: Helen Keller
Source: None
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You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.
Author: Joe E. Lewis
Source: None
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Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.
Author: Ben Lindsey
Source: None
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Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...
Author: Orison Swett Marden
Source: None
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Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.
Author: Luella F. Phean
Source: None
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When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.
Author: Kenneth Rexroth
Source: None
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A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
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