Youth

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!

Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story;

Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

Be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

One’s prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God’s sakegive me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

What have you done, you there Weeping without cease, Tell me, yes you, what have you done With all your youth? 3

And I have loved thee, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward: from a boy I wanton’d with thy breakers.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.

The beat generation.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Youth wrenches the scepter from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.

Live your life and forget your age.

One does not expect old heads on young shoulders.

I’ve taken my fun where I’ve found it.

O yonge, fresshe folkes, he or she,

A boy’s will is the wind’s will

Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

I lived in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in maturity.

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theater before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.