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
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
When I was young, I could bounce back from things like a brand-new rubber ball.
KOBO ABE
The Ghost is Here
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
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 Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.
AMBROSE BIERCE
"The Moonlit Road"
A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
In this conflict between youth and its elders, youth is the incarnation of reason pitted against the rigidity of tradition. Youth puts the remorseless questions to everything that is old and established--Why? What is this thing good for? And when it gets the mumbled, evasive answers of the elders, it applies its own fresh, clean spirit of reason to the institutions, customs, and ideas, and finding them stupid, inane, or poisonous, turns instinctively to overthrow them and build in their place the things with which its visions teem.
RANDOLPH BOURNE
"Youth", The Atlantic Monthly, April 1912
Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.
FRANK HERBERT
Chapterhouse: Dune
We are young only once, after that we need some other excuse.
ANONYMOUS
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
Youth is but an insecure custodian.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.
JON KRAKAUER
Into the Wild
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
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"
Beautiful is the bloom of youth, but it lasts only for a short time.
THEOCRITUS
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
So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Richard III
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
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