Quotes About Youth

These feet won't bear the woman Up the steep steps as lightheartedly They did the skipping child long years ago.

When your thirtieth year is over, A man's as good as dead.

AUTHOR: Who writes anything good these days, Or reads with moderate intelligence! And what the dear young folk all praise, [4090] I've never seen such stupid nonsense.

With disciplined, with fierce, mute anger, Unconquerable battle lust, O Northern manhood's finest flower, O nonpareil youth of the East, 9790 Who wear the lightning of bright armor, Who break great empires like a reed— You pass, and thunder follows after, The earth shakes underneath your tread.

Unhappily, moreover, on such occasions, a multitude of painful discoveries about my own sex were forced upon me; and, in truth, I was then wiser, as a girl of sixteen, than I now am, now that I scarcely understand myself. Why are we so wise when young,—so wise, and ever growing less so?

Reda-mi atunci acele timpuri Cand insumi mai eram in devenire, Cand un izvor nastea fara-ncetare Cantari atatea, de iubire, Cand negura-nvalea taramul Si-un mugur promitea minuni, Cand flori rupeam prin vai o mie Si le-azvarleam dupa lastuni. N-aveam nimic si totusi multe, Placeri gaseam in amagire, Porniri spre adevar inalt. Reda-mi adanca fericire, Reda-mi iubirea, chinul, ura, Cu tinerete laolalt'!

No es que, como se dice, la vejez nos haga niños, sino que nos alcanza siendo aún auténticos niños.

Nas?l da çocuktur insan! Bir bak?? için nedir bu açgözlülük! Nas?l da çocuktur insan!

A young man who is full of presentiments believes that he can account for much and discover even more in mysteries, and that he must work by means of mysteries.

school-boy. The spectators thou regardest as on work-days they regard each other. For thee, then, it may be well to wish thyself behind a desk, over ruled ledgers, collecting tolls, and picking out reversions. Thou feelest not the co-operating, co-inspiring

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Übrigens befinde ich mich hier gar wohl. Die Einsamkeit ist meinem Herzen köstlicher Balsam in dieser paradiesischen Gegend, und diese Jahreszeit der Jugend wärmt mit aller Fülle mein oft schauderndes Herz. Jeder Baum, jede Hecke ist ein Strauß von Blüten, und man möchte zum Maienkäfer werden, um in dem Meer von Wohlgerüchen herumschweben und alle seine Nahrung darin finden zu können.

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exist for his sake.

He could not deny that the beauty, the youth, the gracefulness, of the countess had made some impression on him: but his nature was entirely averse to all empty gallantry, and his principles forbade any thought of more serious enterprises; so that his perplexity at this moment was in truth extreme. The fear of displeasing the countess, and that of pleasing her too well, were equally busy in his mind.

Ihr naht euch wieder, schwankende Gestalten, Die früh sich einst dem trüben Blick gezeigt. Versuch ich wohl, euch diesmal festzuhalten? Fühl ich mein Herz noch jenem Wahn geneigt? Ihr drängt euch zu! nun gut, so mögt ihr walten, Wie ihr aus Dunst und Nebel um mich steigt; Mein Busen fühlt sich jugendlich erschüttert Vom Zauberhauch, der euren Zug umwittert.

One who has passed the thirtieth year already is as good as dead-- it would be best to kill you off by then.

Qué niños somos! ¡Con qué vehemencia suspiramos por una mirada!

La vejez no nos vuelve infantiles, como dicen, sino que nos encuentra todavía cual verdaderos niños.

Life is the childhood of our immortality

Now, nothing makes me more angry than people who torment one another, particularly young people in the prime of their lives, when they should be most receptive of all pleasures, mutually spoil their few good days by putting on moody faces, realizing only when it is too late that they have wasted something irrecoverable.

Nada me aborrece mais do que ver as pessoas se atormentarem umas as outras: e sobretudo os jovens, na primavera da vida, quando o coração podia desabrochar todas as alegrias, estragarem reciprocamente os seus melhores dias para reconhecer mais tarde que esbanjaram bens que nunca mais serão recuperados.

Si la prudencia pudiese conciliarse con la juventud, si pudiesen existir repúblicas sin virtud alguna, ¡cuán pronto vería el mundo cumplidos sus altos destinos!

These things resemble love. A warmhearted youth becomes strongly attached to a maiden: he spends every hour of the day in her company, wears out his health, and lavishes his fortune, to afford continual proof that he is wholly devoted to her.

I bimbi non mantengono quel che promettono, i giovani mantengono assai di rado la parola e quando lo fanno è il mondo a non mantenerla con loro.