Quotes About Youth

Why should a man, whose blood is warm within,Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?

Young in limbs, in judgment old.

What is love? 'tis not hereafter;Present mirth hath present laughter.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.

I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers;How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

From you have I been absent in the spring,When proud-pied April, dress'd in all his trim,Hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, hath yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.

You speak like a green girl,Unsifted in such perilous circumstance.

Two lads that thought there was no more behindBut such a day tomorrow as today,And to be boy eternal.

We were as twinn'd lambs that did frisk i' the sun,And bleat the one at the other: what we chang'dWas innocence for innocence.

In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,I shot his fellow of the selfsame flightThe selfsame way with more advised watch,To find the other forth, and by adventuring both,I oft found both.

Fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.

He wears the roseOf youth upon him.

See, where she comes apparell'd like the spring.

But thy eternal summer shall not fade.

I never knew so young a body with so old a head.

Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime.

A pair of star-cross'd lovers.

I saw young Harry, with his beaver on.

Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother: I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.

A very riband in the cap of youth.

Shall I never see a bachelor of threescore again?

If ladies be but young and fair,They have the gift to know it.

The memory be green.

More matter for a May morning.