#Youth Quotes

“A young man married is a man that's marred.”

“O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies not plenty; Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.”

“Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.”

“Death lies on her like an untimely frost.”

“For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood.”

“He wears the roseOf youth upon him.”

“And too soon Marred are those so early Made.”

“Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee.”

“For youth no less becomesThe light and careless livery that it wears,Than settled age his sables, and his weedsImporting health and graveness.”

“The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.”

“So wise so young, they say, do never live long.”

“For though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears.”

“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care.”

“And in the morn and liquid dew of youth,Contagious blastments are are most imminent.”

“What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.”

“My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in thee time's furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate.”

“Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both.”

“Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in theeCalls back the lovely April of her prime...”

“Dirty days hath SeptemberApril June and NovemberFrom January up to MayThe rain it raineth every dayAll the rest have thirty-oneWithout a blessed gleam of sunAnd if any of them had two-and-thirtyThey'd be just as wet and twice as dirty.""April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.”

“Thou ever young, fresh, lov'd, and delicate wooer, whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow”

“Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?”

“Now stand you on the top of happy hours,And many maiden gardens yet unset,With virtuous wish would bear you living flowers,Much liker than your painted counterfeit:So should the lines of life that life repairWhich this, Time's pencil, or my pupil penNeither in inward worth nor outward fairCan make you live your self in eyes of men.”

“A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.”

“I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.”

“We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.”

“There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.”

“Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen, die, and leave no wisdom to their sons. They believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.”

“The spirit of a youthThat means to be of note, begins betimes.”

“Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.”

“From you have I been absent in the spring,When proud pied April, dressed in all his trim,Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing.”

“For you and I are past our dancing days.”

“Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.”

“Only to youth will spring be spring.”

“Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.”

“I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.”

“I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.”

“May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few thousand airmen? There never has been, I suppose, in all the world, in all the history of war, such an opportunity for youth. The Knights of the Round Table, the Crusaders, all fall back into the past.”

“He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.”

“He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.”

“Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.”

“Make use of time, let not advantage slip;Beauty within itself should not be wasted:Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their primeRot and consume themselves in little time.”

“And writers say, as the most forward budIs eaten by the canker ere it blow,Even so by love the young and tender witIs turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud,Losing his verdure even in the prime,And all the fair effects of future hopes.”

“Old men make war, young men fight and die”

“April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything.”

“The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay 'forever young at heart.'”

“Look at the bright side no matter how old you are, you are younger than you'll ever be again.”

“I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le.”

“Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we havehad our day; now let the children have theirs. The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.”

“America is a country of young men.”

“Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.”