YOUTH QUOTES VII

quotations about youth

Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties,
And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.

HILAIRE BELLOC

"Habitations", Sonnets and Verses

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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick,
Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

The Night of the Iguana

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The magnet does not more surely and powerfully attract the needle, than youth by some electric sympathy of soul is attracted by youth.

ROBERT SHELTON MACKENZIE

Titian: A Romance of Venice


Youth yearns to youth, full blood loves full blood only.

CONRAD AIKEN

"Youth"

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How much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

letter to his family, Oct. 18, 1918

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This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.

ROBERT F. KENNEDY

speech at University of Cape Town, South Africa, Jun. 6, 1966


Youth is not like a new garment which we can keep fresh and fair by wearing sparingly; youth, while we have it, we must wear daily, and it will fast wear away.

JOHN FOSTER

John Foster: Life and Thoughts


I remember what it was ... to be young, very young. When everything, touching and tasting--everything--was so new, and even suffering was wonderful because it was so complete.

JAMES BALDWIN

Another Country

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Youth that is so highly prized passes quickly like a dream; sad and wrinkled old age forthwith impends over our head.

MIMNERMUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Heh? Eh? Our youth is dead.
From the minute we discover it with eyes closed
Advancing into mountain light.
Ouch.

JOHN ASHBERY

"Our Youth Is Dead", The Tennis Court Oath: A Book of Poems

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Tell me, why are the old friends kind,
And ever the tenderest, too?
Youth has no art, but an open mind,
And its love is sincere and true.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"Tell Me"

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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

ANONYMOUS

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It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

ARTHUR C. CLARKE

2010: Odyssey Two

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Youth is the ultimate limited resource.

WILLIAM SHATNER

The Ashes of Eden

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There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.

H. P. LOVECRAFT

"Celephaïs"

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Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!

LORD BYRON

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

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The young are always in extremes.

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Lodore

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Youth is when you are supposed to question who you are and what you believe, when the values and personhood given to you by your society and family are subject to critical examination so that you can redefine your own being.

JOE MARIANI

"On snow and God and Swarthmore", Swarthmore Phoenix, March 16, 2017


The sport of youth is the terror of age.

ZORZI

attributed, Day's Collacon


Youth is naturally addicted to amusement, and in this item his expenditure too often exceeds his allotted income.

JOHN AYRTON PARIS

Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest