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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
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"
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