Youth

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

NO MAN KNOWS HE IS YOUNG WHILE HE IS YOUNG.

If you’re young and talented, it’s like you have wings.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

YOUTH SMILES WITHOUT ANY REASON. IT IS ONE OF ITS CHIEFEST CHARMS.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

AGE MAY HAVE ONE SIDE, BUT ASSUREDLY YOUTH HAS THE OTHER. THERE IS NOTHING MORE CERTAIN THAN THAT BOTH ARE RIGHT, EXCEPT PERHAPS THAT BOTH ARE WRONG.

WHAT IS YOUTH EXCEPT A MAN OR A WOMAN BEFORE IT IS READY OR FIT TO BE SEEN?

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

I THOUGHT I HATED EVERYBODY, BUT WHEN I GREW UP I REALISED IT WAS JUST CHILDREN I DIDN’T LIKE.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

In one’s youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age, one becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on, one is less often delighted or surprised, but also less disappointed.

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

We poets in our youth begin in gladness;

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,

Macte nova virtute, puer, sic itur ad astra.

And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose

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.

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

I am putting old heads on your young shoulders … all my pupils are the crème de la crème.

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

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

Time the subtle thief of youth.

Let me die a youngman’s death