YOUTH QUOTES II
quotations about youth
In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves
For a bright manhood, there is no such word
As "fail".
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
Richelieu
We are young only once, after that we need some other excuse.
ANONYMOUS
He whom the gods love dies young.
MENANDER
attributed, Day's Collacon
Youth is about giving fresh blood a chance.
AARON MOOY
"Harry Kewell in Australia: Socceroos icon on youth development, national side", Sportal, March 16, 2017
Youth is only ever fun in retrospect.
SUNDARA KARMA
"Youth is Only Ever Fun in Retrospect"
O my youth abandoned
Like a withered garland
Here comes the season
Of regret and reason
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE
"O My Youth Abandoned", Selected Poems
When beautiful youth is gone, not much of life remains.
G. ULTHORN
attributed, Day's Collacon
All lovely things will have an ending,
All lovely things will fade and die,
And youth, that's now so bravely spending,
Will beg a penny by and by.
CONRAD AIKEN
"All Lovely Things"
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
So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Richard III
In this conflict between youth and its elders, youth is the incarnation of reason pitted against the rigidity of tradition. Youth puts the remorseless questions to everything that is old and established--Why? What is this thing good for? And when it gets the mumbled, evasive answers of the elders, it applies its own fresh, clean spirit of reason to the institutions, customs, and ideas, and finding them stupid, inane, or poisonous, turns instinctively to overthrow them and build in their place the things with which its visions teem.
RANDOLPH BOURNE
"Youth", The Atlantic Monthly, April 1912
Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.
AMBROSE BIERCE
"The Moonlit Road"
Beautiful is the bloom of youth, but it lasts only for a short time.
THEOCRITUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.
ROB SHEFFIELD
Love is a Mix Tape
Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah.
DAVID LEVITHAN
Marly's Ghost
The mirror of my youth will never lie.
BARBARA O'SULLIVAN
"The Mirror of My Youth", The Steel Mirror: Sonnets and Poems
When you're young, you think you can handle anything. By the time you find out otherwise, it's already too late. You got a stocking wrapped around your neck.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Dance, Dance, Dance
Youth is often a scoffer at destiny.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Oh happy youth! life's oasis of beauty!
What time in after years so pure and sweet?
Free from the lab'ring progress of great manhood,
It treads life's pathway with elastic feet!
C. B. LANGSTON
"Youth"
Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.
FRANK HERBERT
Chapterhouse: Dune