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Anthony Berkeley (A.B. Cox) (used pseudonym Francis Iles)
Our youth we can have but to-day; We may always find time to grow old.
Ben Lindsey
Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.
Benjamin Disraeli
Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
Bible
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Lamentations 3:27
Carl Jung
The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
The chief recommendation [in a young man] is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred. [Lat., Prima commendiato proficiscitur a modestia tum pietate in parentes, tum in suos benevolentia.]
Claudian (Claudianus)
Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth. [Lat., Teneris, heu, lubrica moribus aetas!]
Conrad Aiken
All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.
Cyril Connolly
Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
Dame Mary Gilmore
Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.
Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus
An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age. [Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.]
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.
Euripides
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
Francis Bacon
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business.
Francis Bacon
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Franz Kafka
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
George Bernard Shaw
Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
Hafiz
On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.
Helen Keller
It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
 
 
 
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