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“Youth is a beautiful dream, on whose brightness books shed a blinding dust. Will ever the day come when the wise link the joy of knowledge to youth's dream? Will ever the day come when Nature becomes the teacher of man, humanity his book and life his school? Youth's joyous purpose cannot be fulfilled until that day comes. Too slow is our march toward spiritual elevation, because we make so little use of youth's ardor.”
“Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.”
“Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.”
“Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.”
“Youth is a disease from which we all recover.”
“Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.”
Source: Annotated The Secret Adversary with English Grammar Exercises: by Agatha Christie (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
“Youth is a frame of mind. If you get out there and enjoy it, you can have it at any time of your life.”
“Youth is a gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”
“Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.”
“youth is a marvelous garment”
“Youth is a mortal wound.”
Source: Jacob Have I Loved
“Youth is a period of missed opportunities.”
“Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.”
“Youth is a predominant factor. We are seeing a young King Arthur, and thereby a young-ish - as I'm into my 40s - Merlin. It was about how to tackle it, from that point view.”
“Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.”
“Youth is a question of energy.”
“Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.”
“Youth is a season that has no repose.”
Source: Romance and Reality
“Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.”
“Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.”
“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.”
“Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.”
“Youth is above all a collection of possibilities.”
Source: The First Man
“Youth is always a little offended to find itself not preferred: it cannot help feeling that when it admits the old to its society, it confers a benefit.”
“Youth is always an enemy to the old.”
Source: The Battle-Ground
“youth is always sure that change must mean something better.”
Source: All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography
“Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.”
“Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn't think I could do anything wrong.”
“Youth is an arithmetical statement of passing interest, each hour eats it up.”
“Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks at life, sees it as it really is, and cuts his throat. If this be so, I want to be very drunk. The great thing is to live, to clutch at our existence and race away with it in some great and enthralling pursuit. Above all, I must beware of all ultimate questions- they are too maddeningly unanswerable- let me eschew philosophy and burn Omar.”
Source: The Journal of a Disappointed Man
“Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“Youth is as easily wasted as a fine wine consumed by a drunken man. There is no poetry in aging, and Javert lived out the process in its most hideous iteration.”
Source: Wolves and Urchins: The Early Life of Inspector Javert
“Youth is beautiful; its friendship is precious; the intercourse with it is a purifying release from the worn and stained harness of older life.”
Source: Out-doors at Idlewild: Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson
“Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.”
Source: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
“Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.”
Source: Nightwood
“Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.”
“Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young.”
“Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”
“Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.”
Source: Alzira: A Tragedy
“Youth is everywhere in place.”
Source: Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters
“Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark.”
“Youth is for the inexperienced.”
“Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.”
Source: The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint
“Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.”
Source: Can Such Things Be?
“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.”
“Youth is harmed by having wisdom thrust upon it. Youth must gather wisdom slowly, in laughter and tears.”
Source: My Life and Some Letters
“Youth is immortal; Tis the elderly only grow old!”
Source: The Works of Herman Melville: Redburn