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- Time ever mocks all youthful hopes;
- He laughs at ever plan youth makes;
- He buries fame and honor deep
- In grave of hope--too late youth wakes.
ARDELIA COTTON BARTON, "Time's Ravages"
In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground.
- In the morning of life, before its wearisome journey,
- The youthful soul doth expand, in the simple luxury of being;
- It hath not contracted its wishes, nor set a limit on its hopes;
- The wing of fancy is unclipped, and sin hath not seared the feelings:
- Each feature is stamped with immortality, for all its desires are infinite,
- And it seeketh an ocean of happiness, to fill the deep hollow within.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, Proverbial Philosophy
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
Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance, as if she were a bud first opening her heart with wondering rapture to the morning. Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest; they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places.
- I too was young once--or I think so--see,
- How the years slip like coins from open hands!
KENNETH RAND, "The Prodigal"
Age hath its quiet calm, and youth enjoyeth not for haste.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, Proverbial Philosophy
There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth--are something better than youth.
Youth is the time when hearts are large.
HERMAN MELVILLE, "On the Slain Collegians"
If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new.
GEORGE ELIOT, Middlemarch
There is in youth a purity of character which, when once touched and defiled, can never be restored; a fringe more delicate than frost-work, and which, when torn and broken, can never be re-embroidered.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.
LEONARDO DA VINCI, Thoughts on Art and Life
Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
- Thus youth passed by--a happy time!
- Still ringing in my ears, a chime
- Of sweet familiar tone!
- Life never will, or can bestow
- A time so blest, and free from woe,
- As that delightful one!
C. B. LANGSTON, "My Boyish Days"
When I was young, I could bounce back from things like a brand-new rubber ball.
KOBO ABE, The Ghost is Here
Youth is often a scoffer at destiny.
A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, letter to his cousin Cici
- Over the trackless past, somewhere,
- Lie the lost days of our tropic youth,
- Only regained by faith and prayer,
- Only recalled by prayer and plaint,
- Each lost day has its patron saint!
BRET HARTE, "The Lost Galleon"
We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people--leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, Sketches and Travels in London
The tempests of youth are mingled with days of brilliant sunshine.
LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES, Reflections and Maxims
- O Youth! flame earnest, still aspire,
- With energies immortal!
- To many a heaven of Desire,
- Our yearning opes a portal!
- And tho' Age wearies by the way,
- And hearts break in the furrow,
- We'll sow the golden grain Today--
- The Harvest comes tomorrow.
GERALD MASSEY, "Today and Tomorrow"
It must be a very weary day to the youth when he first discovers that, after all, he will only become a man.
ARTHUR HELPS, Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
- This dream of our youth will fade out as the splendor
- Fades from the skies when the sun sinks to sleep.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, "You Will Forget Me"
- One spring of youth have we. When that is o'er,
- And summer's fleeting dream, then, dear my friends,
- Our autumn days run on to wintry ends,
- Whose breath is chill. Lo, Age is at the door!
CLARA MARCELLE FARRAR GREENE, "Wine On the Lees"
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