YOUTH QUOTES III
quotations about youth
All of us who are worth anything spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
letter to John Gisborne, Nov. 16, 1819
A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Youth is only ever fun in retrospect.
SUNDARA KARMA
"Youth is Only Ever Fun in Retrospect"
The problem with this generation of youth is that they are scared of taking risks and are not passionate enough to go out and create the future they want to experience.
CLAUDIA TURBAY QUINTERO
"Take advantage of opportunities to improve yourselves", Graphic Online, March 16, 2017
Beautiful is the bloom of youth, but it lasts only for a short time.
THEOCRITUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Youth is often a scoffer at destiny.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
When beautiful youth is gone, not much of life remains.
G. ULTHORN
attributed, Day's Collacon
The ship of youth crowds sail; but if the wind forsakes it, the canvas hangs motionless, awaiting a friendly breath; and too often illusions are summoned to its aid.
MME. SWETCHINE
The Writings of Madame Swetchine
The mirror of my youth will never lie.
BARBARA O'SULLIVAN
"The Mirror of My Youth", The Steel Mirror: Sonnets and Poems
She does not simulate youth, and yet she is young. Her smile is as captivating as ever, her laugh as merry and as contagious; and though she can no longer romp with her juniors, she enjoys a vivacious game by proxy as much as she ever did in person, and teases with the same innocent and admirable coquetry. Age has quieted her body but not sobered her spirit. As the life of youth is still hers, so are all its interests. In truth, they have widened with the widening years. As her children have grown up and entered into their several professions, she has accompanied them. Whatever touches their life touches hers, whatever interests them interests her. If she cannot enter into their fields, she can at least come to the fence and look over. So, disavowing all professional knowledge, she is yet singularly intelligent in medicine, law, journalism, theology, and teaching. Her children, when they come home, find her always a ready pupil, and, often to their surprise, their intellectual comrade. Although infirmity begins to put its limitations on her activities, never did life seem to her to be so large, so varied, so full of ever-broadening interest. She occasionally brings out of the past sacred and stimulating memories. But she does not live in the past. She lives in her children, that is in the present, and in her grandchildren, that is in the future.
LYMAN ABBOTT
The Home Builder
Youth without beauty is half a prize.
G. WHITE
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.
ROB SHEFFIELD
Love is a Mix Tape
Maiden, that read'st this simple rhyme,
Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay;
Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime,
For oh, it is not always May!
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
"It Is Not Always May"
Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages.
FRANCIS BACON
Essays
Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
The Rescue
Youth is not rich in time; it may be poor;
Part with it as with money, sparing; pay
No moment but in purchase of its worth,
And what it's worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.
EDWARD YOUNG
Night Thoughts
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"
You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.
SAUL BELLOW
Seize the Day
The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there must be something vital to rebel against and if the elderly stiffly refuse to put up a vigorous front of their own, it leaves the entire situation in a mist.
JANE ADDAMS
The Second Twenty Years at Hull-House