John Dryden Quotes About Youth

Quotes about: Youth

• Love and Time with reverence use,
  Treat them like a parting friend:
  Nor the golden gifts refuse
  Which in youth sincere they send:
  For each year their price is more,
  And they less simple than before.

  John Dryden

  Time, Simple, Years

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.2065, Delphi Classics

• Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's wrongs his own.

  John Dryden

  Failure, People, Action

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 723

• How blessed is he, who leads a country life, Unvex'd with anxious cares, and void of strife! Who studying peace, and shunning civil rage, Enjoy'd his youth, and now enjoys his age: All who deserve his love, he makes his own; And, to be lov'd himself, needs only to be known.

  John Dryden

  Life, Country, Peace

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.312, Delphi Classics

• Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

  John Dryden

  Birthday, Strong, Age

• Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.

  John Dryden

  Joy, Watches, Youth

  John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “Dramatic works”, p.228

• For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.

  John Dryden

  Age, Taste, Youth

  John Dryden (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden. With Illustrations by John Franklin”, p.260

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