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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 Women are only told that they resemble angels when they are young and beautiful; consequently, it is their persons, not their virtues, that procure them homage. - Phoebe Cary It is so beautiful to die young! - Andre Marie de Chenier Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope 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) It is a truth but too well known, that rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age. - 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 So live, that thy young and glowing breast can think of death without a sign. - Eliza Cook I am young, it is true; but in noble souls valor does not wait for years. - Pierre Corneille A young Apollo, golden haired, Stands dreaming on the verge of strife, Magnificently unprepared For the long littleness of life. - Mrs. Frances Macdonald Cornford, On Rupert Brooke From thoughtless youth to ruminating age. - William Cowper Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone, That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. - William Cowper, Tirocinium (l. 296) Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know. - Sir John Denham, Of Prudence (l. 225) To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly. - John Dryden, Aureng-Zebe (act III, sc. 1) In youth we learn; in age we understand. - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it. - Albert Einstein The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Youth is everywhere in place. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young And always keep us so. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays--The Poet Displaying page 2 of 7 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7
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