When buttercups are blossoming, The poets sand, 'tis best to wed: So all for love we paired in Spring-- Blanche and I--ere youth had sped.
Sing away, ay, sing away, Merry little bird Always gayest of the gay, Though a woodland roundelay You ne'er sung not heard; Though your life from youth to age Passes is a narrow cage.
With more capacity for love than earth Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth, His early dreams of good out-stripp'd the truth, And troubled manhood follow'd baffled youth.
If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
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.
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Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739 The great need today among the young is the strengthening of belief in things spiritual, for in spite of the superhuman advances in science, invention, and culture, none of this is attributed to God's gift to man; in fact, the increase of knowledge and the cult of education have but given to youth a self-reliant independence where religion has no place, and beyond admitting that Christ was "the best man that ever lived," there are few who concede any other tribute to the Creator. And yet the saving principles of the world are rooted in Christ, implanted in him; the Truth by which men live is the Truth as taught and lived by Jesus.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet.
Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.
One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.
I have heard it said that the first ingredient of successâthe earliest spark in the dreaming youthâif this; dream a great dream.
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
I came to the place of my birth and cried: "The friends of my youth, where are they?"--and an echo answered, "Where are they?"
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
Managing our emotions increases intuition and clarity. It helps us self-regulate our brain chemicals and internal hormones. It gives us natural highs, the real fountain of youth we've been searching for. It enables us to drink from elixirs locked within our cells, just waiting for us to discover them. -Doc Childre.
And we know these times will never fade, hold them close, our youth is remembered forever...
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
He was indeed the glass Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.