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Beautiful is the bloom of youth, but it lasts only for a short time. — Theocritus

The confidence of youth, which knows that it can never die, lifted her into a bright sphere. — Askold Melnyczuk

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be. — Cesare Pavese

Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure. — Lewis H. Lapham

Ripen your mind to the glorious history of the ages and revel in your mastery as today's youth shall look upon you as a sage. — Maximillian Degenerez

It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

You had to be willing to fight in order for a love story to last a life time. — Cristina Marrero

A current under sea
Picked his bones in whispers.
As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering the whirlpool. — T. S. Eliot

This rubicund youth, with his blunt features, appeared for all the world to have a tomato instead of a head. — Marcel Proust

I'm excited about what I have to offer. Not only a little bit of youth, but a different perspective as a woman. — Lisa Murkowski

The radio of my youth ... is now a quaint memory replaced by computer hard drives. — Phil Donahue

A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. — Meat Loaf

the false humility of youth that is itself a sort of pride. It — George R R Martin

Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living. — Carey Williams

To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that. — Willa Cather

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth. — Richard Steele

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold. — Robert Browning

Oh, youth is a wicked, cruel thing - eating miracles with its breakfast and not knowing they are not porridge. — Elizabeth Bibesco

There grows in the North Country a certain kind of youth of whom it may be said that he is born to be a Londoner. — Arnold Bennett

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood

It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I aspire to be
an old man
with an old wife
laughing at old jokes
from a wild youth. — Atticus Poetry

Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual. — Julian Barnes

Only youth has a taste of immortality. — D.H. Lawrence

What the youth needs to be told is that a ship is a-building in his own mental dry dock, a ship with freedom of the seas. — Aldo Leopold

Youth is a disease from which we must never recover. — J. Williams

April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. (Sonnet XCVIII) — William Shakespeare

The first loves of a man's youth run through all the currents of his life. — Charles S. Faddis

A reluctance to acknowledge that there may be wisdom in youth would be foolish. — Terry Brooks

A young girl's heart is indestructible. — Esther Hautzig

I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

The seeds of a happy marriage are sown in youth. Happiness does not begin at the altar; it begins during the period of youth and courtship. — David O. McKay

That was his mistake, the false humility of youth that is itself a sort of pride. — George R R Martin

It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us count until we lose it. — Geraldine Brooks

Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day. — Benito Mussolini

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. — George Bernard Shaw

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward. — Djuna Barnes

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet. — Seth Godin

You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot. — Paul Cezanne

How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

It's not that I'm apolitical ... In my youth, I was a freelance political speechwriter, which taught me a lot about writing fiction, I must add. — Susan Isaacs

What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it. — Javan

I had a very nice, cozy childhood. I did lots of plays at school and worked with the National Youth Theatre as a teenager. — Lucy Punch

We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school. — William Shakespeare

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth. — Vincent Van Gogh

A friend of your youth is the only friend you ever have.. — Robert Penn Warren

You think all existence lapses in a quiet flow as that in which your youth has hitherto slid away — Charlotte Bronte

She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world. — F Scott Fitzgerald

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth. — Stendhal

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment. — James Joyce

A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent. — George Herbert

You have blighted the promise of youth, and made my life a wilderness! — Anne Bronte

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one. — George Borrow

Sit down, have a nice cup of coffee read a book in another language - the fountain of youth! — Stephen D. Krashen

What it is
is the memory of a dance
a song you heard long ago
to hear it is to be young again
and for once
for once you are happy — Julio Alexi Genao

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading. — Rufus Choate

Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent. — Eric Hoffer

Youth is like a fickle girlfriend. We can't understand or value her until she goes off with someone else, never to return. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth. — Sam Kinison

I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking. — Portia De Rossi

It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon. — Peter Ustinov

I love movies to death. I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies. — Amy Heckerling

Having been a singer in a band, back in my youth, music is really important to me. — Mick Garris

In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I'd sleep for twelve hours and even when awake escape to the safe place in my mind. — Sandra Cisneros

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. — Jacqueline Bisset

I am living a simple life with a complicated mind and I have yet to find a state of mind where I feel safe with who I am, where I am, with what I do. — Charlotte Eriksson

Your life is not meant to be lived in a way to satisfy someone's expectation out of you! Live your life in your own way. — Avijeet Das

As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay. — Mason Cooley

Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own. — Victor Hugo

I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name. — Moliere

I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs. — Alexander Payne

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted. — Andre Malraux

I know the youth of India. They are not merely asking for things. The youth wants to stand of their own feet and live a life of pride and dignity. — Narendra Modi

You have money, fame, youth, beauty, talent. That's a good start ... for feeling good. — Leonard Cohen

I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne. — Don DeLillo

I have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are longer. — Jerry N. Uelsmann

To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade. — John Milton

There's nothing that keeps it's youth
So far as I know, but a tree and the truth
— Ogden Nash

As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth. — Thelma Golden

achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body — Charles Dickens

Cynicism is a boring and dull old man's disease people have no business getting when they're young. — Erika Lopez

A feeling of disquiet continues to haunt me. As a youth one dreams of love; by the time one wakes, it is too late. — Sandra Gulland

I would say there's always a movement of music and fashion in youth culture - every decade inspires the new one. — Maripol

Youth is a disease from which we all recover. — Dorothy Fuldheim

I wish but to share your gifts as a young boy on his birthday would excitedly rip open his packages to the view of others. — Dan Groat

Through all the years of my sad youth Huysmans remained a companion, a faithful friend; never once did I doubt him, — Michel Houellebecq

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth. — Cleveland Abbe

Our youth [with their overwhelming support of Obama] are voting for a permanent tax on their life — Dennis Prager

I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth! — Gil Gerard

It was not a union which seemed likely to prosper, since its chief characteristics were imprudence, youth and extreme good looks. — Cecil Woodham-Smith

If we were teenagers, I could kiss you. But I'm on a platform behind a counter wearing a name tag and we're too old to be young. — Caroline Kepnes

What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure. — William Shakespeare

Today's college students demand a self-segregating "safe space". Rosa Parks spinning in her grave. — A.E. Samaan

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. — Jeremy Collier

I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible. — Zooey Deschanel

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. — Walter Savage Landor

I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart. — Jon English

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-Thurston Moore — David Rat