Quotes About Youth

keep her away from his brother. They say he had her locked in her room. But true love prevailed, and the young duke and the young widowed princess fell into each other's arms. At all events, this version of the story is all desperately romantic and wonderful. Fools of all ages enjoy it very much.

He was such a happy boy, and happiness is not memorable.

However heart-stopping his smile and however honest his eyes, however much I think of him as a boy fired to greatness by his own ambition, I cannot trust him.

never see them again. Surely, a couple so young, so

I stood beside the queen's chair and knew that any man looking from her to me would think that she was a fine woman, but old enough to be my mother, while I was a woman of only fourteen, a woman ready to fall in love, a woman ready to feel desire, a precocious woman, a flowering girl. The

For these are true boys and they draw dirt to them as if by magic.

I will try to remember this day, and you looking like a child, a little lost among all these clothes. I will try to remember that you were innocent of any plotting; that today at least, you were more a girl than a Boleyn." ?

He's a young man who has lived under the shadow of the sword from the moment when he fled England as a boy of fourteen to the day when he rode home to fight for his claim. Nobody knows better than he that any claimant to the throne has to be killed at once. A king cannot let a pretender live. No king can allow a pretender to live.

of the agreed facts: the official bedding; the young couple co-habiting at Ludlow; their youth and health; and the absence of any concern about the consummation of their marriage; convincingly indicates

He will never understand what happened that day between a young man and a young woman. There was a magic: and the name of it was love.

Boys never become men, they become skeletons and skulls.

Karen made a face. Oh, c'mon. I don't think so, I said. Old Play-by-the-Rules McKinley, said Brian, laughing at me. I could hardly stand him. You've got that right, I said, and turned away.

They came out of the bushes as their father yelled again, crossed the road, and went up the steps to the porch, where Mr. Hatford held the door open for them. Whenever Dad held the door open, Wally always felt like a prisoner going into his cell.

Boys fell for so many things you wouldn't think they'd believe. It was really incredible. None of her friends back home had been quite so stupid.

Every time I change wives I should burn the last one. That way I'd be rid of them. They wouldn't be around to complicate my existence. Maybe, that would bring back my youth, too. You kill the woman and you wipe out the past she represents.

Todos los niños nacen artistas. El problema es cómo seguir siendo artista cuando creces.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. But to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.

because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible...

For he who is a corrupter of the laws is more than likely to be a corrupter of the young and foolish portion of mankind.

O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the Gods, know that if you become worse you shall go to the worse souls, or if better to the better, and in every succession of life and death you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven. Plato

What of his beard? Are you not of Homer's opinion, who says Youth is most charming when the beard first appears?

Yet as the proverb says, 'In vino veritas,' whether with boys, or without them (In allusion to two proverbs.); and therefore I must speak.