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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, All Lovely Things
- The youth is no longer a youth, but a man,
- When the first of his dreams is dead.
WILLIAM HERBERT CARRUTH, Ghosts of Dreams
The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.
MARK TWAIN, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Youth, what man's age is like to be doth show;
- We may our ends by our beginnings know.
JOHN DENHAM, Of Prudence
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?
CONFUCIUS, The Wisdom of Confucius
In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, preface, The Snow-Image
[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Alexander Hamilton, Sep. 1, 1796
When you see the way things deteriorate before your very eyes. Everything running down hill. It's kind of silly to even think about youth.
SAM SHEPARD, Buried Child
Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exist for his sake.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Great Quotes for Great Educators
- Youth's the season made for joys,
- Love is then our duty.
JOHN GAY, The Beggar's Opera
In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all, and to the young it comes with bittered agony because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to expect it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Fanny McCullough, Dec. 23, 1862
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
OSCAR WILDE, The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Youth is the pollen
- That blows through the sky
- And does not ask why.
STEPHEN VINCENT BENÉT, John Brown's Body
- 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
With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.
- Only to children children sing,
- Only to youth will spring be spring.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The Harp
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
- O youth whose hope is high,
- Who dost to Truth aspire,
- Whether thou live or die,
- O look not back nor tire.
ROBERT BRIDGES, O Youth Whose Hope is High
Youth is no excuse for sloppiness.
LISA GARDNER, The Perfect Husband
- Youth has needs, I know,
- And headlong yearnings like the mountain streams
- That rush adown the nearest path they find
- To meet the sounding river.
ANNA KATHERINE GREEN, "Womanhood"
Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.
AMBROSE BIERCE, "The Moonlit Road"
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