Youth Quotes - Page 36

• When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Gains, Nuance

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.233, Modern Library

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• You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Firsts, Young

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1999). “Crime and Punishment”, p.467, Modern Library

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• Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Age, Aging, Remember

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 2”, p.205, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Today in America vast concourses of youth are flocking to our colleges, eager for something, just what they do not know.

  Learned Hand

  Learning, College, America

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• One antidote for sexual truancy lies in simply teaching youth the wonder, the miracle, the reverence for the creation of life itself. Life is a divine creation. You don't take chances with creation.

  Sam Levenson

  Sex, Lying, Teaching

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• The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Affection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.75, Harvard University Press

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• Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Wrinkles, Age

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bliss Perry (1926). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.306, Courier Corporation

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• In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Zodiac, Rainbow, Brave

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.423, Harvard University Press

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• How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet infuse so much pleasure into life. A lovely child, a handsome youth, a beautiful girl, a heroic man, a maternal woman, a venerable old man, charm us, though strangers, and we cannot say so, or look at them but for a moment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Girl, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.197, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.

  E. M. Forster

  Past, Clouds, Students

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• Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.

  Plato

  Teaching, Wine, Exercise

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• The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a disagreeable thing.... So are flying twinges of gout, shortness of breath on the hill-side, the fact that even the moderate use of your friend's wines at dinner upsets you. These things are disagreeable because they tell you that you are no longer young—that you have passed through youth, are now in middle age, and faring onward to the shadows in which, somewhere, a grave is hid.

  Alexander Smith

  Morning, Wine, Hair

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• There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I ever saw on a lip of seventeen. There is the beauty of youth, and there is also the beauty of holiness—a beauty much more seldom met; and more frequently found in the arm-chair by the fire, with grandchildren around its knee, than in the ball-room or the promenade.

  Alexander Smith

  Grandchildren, Fire, Perfection

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.

  C. S. Lewis

  Age, Surface, Our Lives

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Our youth must be steadfast and take advantage of the benefits of modern civilization. Do not fall prey to idleness for it shall be a curse to you and to succeeding generations. You must set yourselves us as examples of determination and hard work. Plan your time and use both your physical and mental powers purposefully and productively.

  Haile Selassie

  Determination, Fall, Hard Work

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• People think that I'm tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Strong, Thinking, Adorable

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• The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes. The adolescent offers nothing, can do nothing, say nothing that the adult cannot do better.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Children, Eye, Old Things

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.98, e-artnow

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• Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's disquiet- Ah, give me back my youth again!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Pain, Hate, Heart

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1984). “Faust”

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• What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wall, House, Graffiti

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• How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Education, Wall, Order

  William Lyon Phelps (2016). “A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More”, p.83, Read Books Ltd

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• I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

  Mark Twain

  Age, Earth, Way

  Mark Twain (2015). “Complete Letters of Mark Twain”, p.689, Litres

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• Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Childhood, Fragility

  Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “Essays of Elia. Rosamund Gray. Recollections of Chirst's hospital. Essays on the tragedies of Shakspeare [etc.] Letters under assumed signatures published in the Reflector. Curious fragments. Mr. H”, p.42

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• Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.

  Victor Hugo

  Sorrow

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Les Miserables”, p.366

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• If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Age, Genuine

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1968). “Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert Louis Stevenson”

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• Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.

  Jesse Jackson

  Groups, Gang, Reactions

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