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Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; Old age is slow in both. - Joseph Addison, Cato (act II, sc. 5) Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope. - Aristotle Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep; It hears a voice within it tell: Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well. 'Tis all perhaps which man acquires, But 'tis not what our youth desires. - Matthew Arnold, Youth and Calm (l. 19) Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business. - Francis Bacon, Of Youth and Age The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. - Lucille Ball I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen. - Richard Harris Barham, Aunt Fanny I'm not young enough to know everything. - Sir James Matthew Barrie Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth. - Isaac Barrow, Duty of Thanksgiving--Works (vol. I, p. 66) To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something. - Samuel Beckett Our youth we can have but to-day; We may always find time to grow old. - Anthony Berkeley (A.B. Cox) (used pseudonym Francis Iles), Can Love be Controlled by Advice? Young fellows will be young fellows. - Isaac Bickerstaffe (Bickerstaff), Love in a Village (II, 2) They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, We will remember them. - Laurence Binyon (Robert Laurence Binyon), For the Fallen Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. These laid the world away: poured out the red Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene That men call age, and those who would have been Their sons, they gave their immortality. - Rupert Brooke, The Dead Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, What Will He Do With It? (bk. II, heading of ch. XV) Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy! - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Childe Harold (canto II, st. 23) Her years Were ripe, they might make six-and-twenty springs; But there are forms which Time to touch forbears. And turns aside his scythe to vulgar things. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto V, st. 98) And both were young, and one was beautiful. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), The Dream (st. 2) 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, Essays--Schiller I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature. - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short) 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) (often called "Tully" for short), Cato; or, An Essay on Old Age 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) (often called "Tully" for short), De Officiis (II, 13) Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth. [Lat., Teneris, heu, lubrica moribus aetas!] - Claudian (Claudianus), De Raptu Proserpinoe (III, 227) Life went a-Maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy; When I was young! When I was young?--Ah, woful when! - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Youth and Age Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. - Cyril Connolly Youth is a period of missed opportunities. - Cyril Connolly Displaying page 1 of 5 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5
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