Youth Quotes - Page 37

• Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ambitious, Courtesy, Manners

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.406

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• What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wall, House, Graffiti

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• I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

  Mark Twain

  Age, Earth, Way

  Mark Twain (2015). “Complete Letters of Mark Twain”, p.689, Litres

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• Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Childhood, Fragility

  Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “Essays of Elia. Rosamund Gray. Recollections of Chirst's hospital. Essays on the tragedies of Shakspeare [etc.] Letters under assumed signatures published in the Reflector. Curious fragments. Mr. H”, p.42

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• If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Age, Genuine

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1968). “Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert Louis Stevenson”

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• Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.

  Jesse Jackson

  Groups, Gang, Reactions

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• One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.

  John Burroughs

  Past, May, Return

  John Burroughs (1906). “Bird and Bough”

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• It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Girl, Children, May

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• As a result of all his education, from everything he hears and sees around him, the child absorbs such a lot of lies and foolish nonsense, mixed in with essential truths, that the first duty of the adolescent who wants to be a healthy man is to disgorge it all.

  Romain Rolland

  Children, Lying, Men

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• We think in youth that our bodies are identical to ourselves and have the same interests, but discover later in life that they are heartless companions who have been accidentally yoked with us, and who are as likely as not, in our extreme sickness or old age, to treat us with less mercy than we would have received at the hands of the worst bandits.

  Rebecca West

  Thinking, Later In Life, Hands

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.382, Open Road Media

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• When our young people can find meaningful work, we all benefit. This youth jobs strategy would help connect youth with careers they can build on and equip them with the skills they need to thrive in today's global economy.

  Kathleen Wynne

  Meaningful, Jobs, Careers

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• Time--our youth--it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

  Helen Hooven Santmyer

  Mind, Doe

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• We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

  William Wordsworth

  Madness, Poet, Ends

  "Resolution and Independence" l. 43 (1807)

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• A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.

  Aldous Huxley

  Years, People, Majority

  Interview with Raymond Fraser, George Wickes, The Paris Review, Issue 23, 1960.

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• You never know what peace is until you walk on the shores or in the fields or along the winding red roads of Prince Edward Island in a summer twilight when the dew is falling and the old stars are peeping out and the sea keeps its mighty tryst with the little land it loves. You find your soul then. You realize that youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Summer, Stars, Fall

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• A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fire, Age, Old Age

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.57

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• Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Fire, Gambling, Flax

  "Poor Richard's Almanack" by Benjamin Franklin, 1736.

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• Wise parents know that fighting a teenager, like fighting a riptide, is inviting doom.

  Haim Ginott

  Wise, Teenager, Fighting

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• It [England] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts.

  George Orwell

  Uncles, Aunt, Hands

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.125, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.

  Maya Angelou

  Adults, Teens, Pressure

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.208, Modern Library

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• While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.

  Isak Dinesen

  Failure, Ideas, Bears

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.10, Vintage

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• Youth is immortal; Tis the elderly only grow old!

  Herman Melville

  Elderly, Immortal, Grows

  Herman Melville (1924). “The Works of Herman Melville: Redburn”

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• Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Long, Way, Facts

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.

  Robert Southey

  Age, Aging, Forgotten

  "The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them" l. 21 (1799)

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• For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for a moment in the height of prosperity; then at life's end with limbs worn out by old age and wrinkles adorning his face, like an actor he retires behind the curtain of death.

  Bhartrhari

  Boys, Men, Wrinkles

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