Quotes
Quotes about Youth
It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.
Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school: and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper mill.
We shall assume that what each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but by pictures made by himself or given to him. If his atlas tells him the world is flat he will not sail near what he believes to be the edge of our planet for fear of falling off. If his maps include a fountain of eternal youth, a Ponce de Leon will go off in quest of it. If someone digs up yellow dirt that looks like gold, he will for a time act exactly as if he has found gold. The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do. It does not determine what they will achieve. It determines their effort, their feelings, their hopes, not their accomplishments and results.
No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.
I have heard it said that the first ingredient of successâthe earliest spark in the dreaming youthâif this; dream a great dream.
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
As in this body, there are for the embodied one childhood, youth, old age, even so is there the taking on of another body.
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
As in this body, there are for the embodied one childhood, youth, old age, even so is there the taking on of another body.
Cruel Remorse! where Youth and Pleasure sport, And thoughtless Folly keeps her court,-- Crouching 'midst rosy bowers thou lurk'st unseen Slumbering the festal hours away, While Youth disports in that enchanting scene; Till on some fated day Thou with a tiger-spring dost leap upon thy prey, And tear his helpless breast, o'erwhelmed with wild dismay.
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age--I missed it coming and going.
Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.
I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 1.
We have some salt of our youth in us. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 3.
He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.
For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3.
All the world 's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woful ballad Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard; Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side; His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.
But now being lifted into high society, And having pick'd up several odds and ends Of free thoughts in his travels for variety, He deem'd, being in a lone isle, among friends, That without any danger of a riot, he Might for long lying make himself amends; And singing as he sung in his warm youth, Agree to a short armistice with truth.
