YOUTH

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1. Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.—HENRY ADAMS, The Education of Henry Adams
   

2. Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business.—BACON, Of Youth and Age
   

3. Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth.—Bible, Ecclesiastes 11:9
   

4. Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.—Bible, Ecclesiastes 12:1
   

5. Youth is the only season for enjoyment, and the first twenty-five years of one's life are worth all the rest of the longest life of man, even though those five-and-twenty be spent in penury and contempt, and the rest in the possession of wealth, honours, respectability.—GEORGE BORROW, The Romany Rye
   

6. In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves
   For a bright manhood, there is no such word
   As "fail."—BULWER-LYTTON, Richelieu
   

7. In sorrow he learned this truth—
   One may return to the place of his birth,
   He cannot go back to his youth.—JOHN BURROUGHS, The Return
   

8. To me it seems that youth is like spring, an over-praised season—delightful if it happen to be a favoured one, but in practice very rarely favoured and more remarkable, as a general rule, for biting east winds than genial breezes.—SAMUEL BUTLER, The Way of All Flesh
   

9. To ride, shoot straight, and speak the truth—
   This was the ancient Law of Youth.
   Old times are past, Old days are done;
   But the law runs true, O little son!—C. T. DAVIS, For a Little Boy
   

10. The young man walks by himself, fast but not fast enough, far but not far enough (faces slide out of sight, talk trails into tattered scraps, footsteps tap fainter in alleys); he must catch the last subway, the streetcar, the bus, run up the gangplanks of all the steamboats, register at all the hotels, work in the cities, answer the want-ads, learn the trades, take up the jobs, live in all the boarding-houses, sleep in all the beds. One bed is not enough, one job is not enough, one life is not enough. At night, head swimming with wants, he walks by himself alone. No job, no woman, no house, no city.—JOHN DOS PASSOS, U. S. A.
    

11. The young are prodigal of life from a superabundance of it; the old are tenacious on the same score, because they have little left, and cannot enjoy even what remains of it.—HAZLITT, The Feeling of Immortality in Youth
    

12. There is a feeling of Eternity in youth, which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortal Gods.—HAZLITT, The Feeling of Immortality in Youth
    

13. No young man believes he shall ever die.—HAZLITT, The Feeling of Immortality in Youth
    

14. When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one.—HORACE
    

15. Andrew Carnegie, when asked on one occasion whether he was not worried for fear some of the young men he was training would take his place, shook his head and replied, "All that worries me is that they
    won't."—WALTER HONING, Your Career in Business
    

16. Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life
    

17. Young blood must have its course, lad,
    And every dog his day.—CHARLES KINGSLEY, Water Babies
    

18. Youth had been a habit of hers for so long, that she could not part with it.—KIPLING, Plain Tales
    

19. I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for youth.—JUDGE BEN LINDSEY
    

20. I say to you
    That the much-sought prize of eternal youth
    Is just arrested growth.—EDGAR LEE MASTERS, Spoon River Anthology
    

21. Would you be young again?
    So would not I—
    One tear to memory given,
    Onward I'd hie.—CAROLINA OLIPHANT, Would You Be Young Again?
    

22. Pension never enriched a young man.—Proverb
    

23. If youth knew what age would crave, it would both get and save.—Proverb
    

24. The temper of our youth has become more restless, more critical, more challenging. Flaming youth has become a flaming question. And youth comes to us wanting to know what we may propose to do about a society that hurts so many of them.—FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Address, April 13, 1936
    

25. I never knew so young a body with so old a head.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
    

26. Young in limbs, in judgement old.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
    

27. Youth is a wonderful thing.
    What a crime to waste it on children.—BERNARD SHAW
    

28. The flower
    Of our young manhood.—SOPHOCLES, Oedipus Tyrannus
    

29. Youth is wholly experimental.—STEVENSON, A Letter to a Young Gentleman
    

30. In the brave days when I was twenty-one.—THACKERAY, The Garret
    

31. The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.—THOREAU, Journal
    

32. Youth, large, lusty, loving—Youth, full of grace, force, fascination,
    Do you know that Old Age may come after you, with equal grace, force,
    fascination?—WALT WHITMAN, Youth, Day, Old Age and Night
    

33. The Youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.—OSCAR WILDE
    

34. Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven.—WORDSWORTH, The Prelude
    

35. Many are our joys
    In youth, but oh! what happiness to live
    When every hour brings palpable access
    Of knowledge, when all knowledge is delight,
    And sorrow is not there!—WORDSWORTH, The Prelude
    

36. A youth to whom was given
    So much of earth—so much of heaven.—WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, Ruth