Quotes About Youth

Oft am I by the Women told, Poor Anacreon, thou grow'st old, Look how thy hairs are falling all; Poor Anacreon how they fall. Whether I grow old or no, By th' Effects I do not know. This I know without being told, 'Tis time to Live, if I grow Old. 'Tis time short Pleasures now to take; Of little Life the best to make, And manage wisely the last Stake.

Bring water, bring wine, boy! Bring flowering garlands to me! Yes, bring them, so that I may try a bout with love.

An old man seating down is able to see far better than a child standing on top of a tree.

Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.

Inside, however, in our core, past the aches, pains and creaking joints of age, youth still resides. Keep that in mind. As

speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the emotions of childhood.

Intellectually, true beauty is very difficult to distinguish a priori from the bloom of youth.

The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that is is too late and the game finished, and the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

Rumalus on põlata austajad ära siis, kui neid on palju ja nad on noored, ning hakata neile järele jooksma kolmekümne aasta pärast, kui neid on vähe ja nad on kiilaspäised.

In the middle of the tournament I turn eighteen. The tournament director rolls a cake out to center court, and everyone sings. I've never liked birthdays. No one ever took note of my birthday when I was growing up. But this feels different. I'm legal, everyone keeps saying. In the eyes of the law, you're a grown-up. Then the law is an ass.

But I'd run two miles and when I stepped inside our cool, dark house, I yelled up the stairs to Mom, "I ran two miles with Daddy, Mom! I'm strong! I'm strong!" And I punched the wall and could feel the plaster and lath behind the wallpaper, though I had no words for them.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'

Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

The friendship of two young people,' says Goethe somewhere, 'is delightful when the girl likes to learn and the boy to teach.' It will perhaps be said that this virgin curiosity is no more than unconscious physical desire; but what does it matter, if this desire sharpens the mind and deadens conceit?

K?ds pret?gs apsl?pts nodoms ir bijis dabai, radot skaistumu, jaun?bu un m?lest?bu?

Wearing glasses for reading meant surrendering to old age without the least bit of a fight.

He also remembered a comedy he had read in his youth called "The Deluge", which claimed the next great flood would be caused not by water from the heavens but by the backing up and over flowing of all the toilets, latrines, cesspools and septic tanks in the world which would start chucking up their contents relentlessly until we all drowned in our own shit.

Andrea Davis Pinkney

Lui la guarda da pochi centimetri alla luce del mattino: con gli occhi chiusi, i capelli confusi dalla notte e dalle danze, l'aspetto di donna e di ragazzina. Gli sembra che i suoi lineamenti e le sue forme corrispondano con perfetta naturalezza a qualunque sogno abbia mai coltivato, colmino qualunque vuoto abbia mai provato.

My age makes him nervous and shamey, cause his eyes keep heading southwards and then back up, guilty. I can tell I can make his eyes swirl and that's just about all I want to do.