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.
Thomas Carlyle
Quotes , 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.
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Quotes , 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.]
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Quotes , Source: De Officiis (II, 13)
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Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth.
[Lat., Teneris, heu, lubrica moribus aetas!]
Claudian (Claudianus)
Quotes , 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!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Quotes , 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.
Mrs. Frances Macdonald Cornford
Quotes , 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.
William Cowper
Quotes , 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.
Sir John Denham
Quotes , Source: Of Prudence (l. 225)
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
John Dryden
Quotes , 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.
John Dryden
Quotes , 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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes , Source: Essays--The Poet
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An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age.
[Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.]
Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus
Quotes , 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.
Conrad Aiken
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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.
Francis Bacon
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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Lamentations 3:27
Bible
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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
Lord Chesterfield
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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.
Marcus T. Cicero
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Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
Euripides
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On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.
Hafiz
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