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“Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a tempermental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease. This often exists in a man of fifty, more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals.”

“Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance, as if she were a bud first opening her heart with wondering rapture to the morning. Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest; they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places.”

Source: Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus

“I have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing on it.”

Stills Youth Theory Twenties Drawing Observing

Author:Joyce Grenfell

“Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they are hereafter to learn. There are two periods of life with reference to which education has to be divided, from seven to the age of puberty, and onwards to the age of one and twenty.”

Should Years Looks Two Age Hate Education Five Youth Periods Twenties Seven Vices Following Stranger Pursuit Five Years Divided Hereafter Passed Away Puberty

Book:Politics

Source: Politics

“By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.”

Years Believe Wells Age I Believe Practice Five Middle Youth Twenties Following Well Being Thirty Five Years Middle Ages Twenty Five Vitamins Nutrients

Book:How to Live Longer and Feel Better

Source: How to Live Longer and Feel Better

“I don't suppose there's a man going, as possesses the fondness for youth that I do. There's youth to the amount of eight hundredpound a-year, at Dotheboys Hall at this present time. I'd take sixteen hundred pound worth, if I could get 'em, and be as fond of every individual twenty pound among 'em as nothing should equal it!”

Ifs Men Should Years Individual Youth Amount Equal Hundred Twenties Eight If I Could Ems Pounds Halls Schooling Sixteen Present Time Fondness Tuition

Author:Charles Dickens

“Alas, we are the victims of advertisement. Those who taste the joys and sorrows of fame when they have passed forty, know how to look after themselves. They know what is concealed beneath the flowers, and what the gossip, the calumnies, and the praise are worth. But as for those who win fame when they are twenty, they know nothing, and are caught up in the whirlpool.”

Knows Looks Joy Winning Know How Youth Flower Sorrow Taste Fame Twenties Praise Victim Caught Forty Gossip Caught Up Alas Concealed Advertisements Calumny Joys And Sorrows Whirlpools

Author:Sarah Bernhardt

“In early youth, if we find it difficult to control our feelings, so we find it difficult to vent them in the presence of others. On the spring side of twenty, if anything affects us, we rush to lock ourselves up in our room, or get away into the street or the fields; in our earlier years we are still the savages of nature, and we do as the poor brutes do. The wounded stag leaves the herd; and if there is anything on a dog's faithful heart, he slinks away into a corner.”

“Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.”

Two Stories Names Youth Sweet Glory Twenties Plenty Ivy Laurels Myrtle

Author:Lord Byron

“Treasures are not for youth; at twenty years of age, one does not know how to be rich, or how to be loved.”

Knows Years Doe Age Know How Rich Youth Twenties Treasure

Author:Delphine de Girardin

“I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting”

Children Age Fighting Three Sleep Youth Twenties Stealing Adolescence Sixteen Wenches

Author:William Shakespeare

“It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are as significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before. At thirty an organ-grinder is a more or less a moth eaten man who grinds an organ - and once he was an organ-grinder! The unmistakable stigma of humanity touches all those impersonal and beautiful things that only youth ever grasps in their impersonal glory.”

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies not plenty; Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.”

“But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.”

Joy Passion Memories Too Much Failing Youth Beats Twenties Senses Temptation Yield Get Back Limbs Pulse Exquisite Hideous Puppets Degenerates Sluggish

Book:Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: Picture of Dorian Gray

“He was only twenty-five.He was young enough to miss his youth just as it was slipping away. The worst kind of loss-the one that is happening as you feel it.”

Feels Kind Enough Young Loss Five Worst Missing Youth Happenings Twenties Twenty Five Slipping Slipping Away

Book:Thin Skin

Source: Thin Skin

“An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.”

Source: Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays: Top Philosophy Collections

“No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at forty. There have been men who have done great work later; ... [but] I do not know of a single instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty. ... A mathematician may still be competent enough at sixty, but it is useless to expect him to have original ideas.”

“When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.”

Men Fall Girl Youth Twenties Falling In Love Seeking Forty Lenore

Book:Storyline; recollections of a Hollywood screenwriter

Source: Storyline; recollections of a Hollywood screenwriter

“"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put to me by the aunt-in-law who had moments before placed a golf club in my virgin grip. I was twenty-five, and had spent my youth in a cloisterd precinct of teh middle class where golf was a rumoured something, like champagne breakfasts and divorce, that the rich did.”

Firsts Moments Hands Law Left Class Rich Five Heard Middle Youth Twenties Golf Clubs Divorce Middle Class Breakfast Swings Virgins Aunt In-laws Champagne Twenty Five Left Hand Golf Clubs

Author:John Updike

“Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.”

Men Years Mean Body Grows Numbers Youth Adventure Ideals Twenties Ease Appetite Sixty Timidity

Author:Samuel Ullman

“When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.”

May Long Age Young Spirit Dies Youth Optimism Twenties Down And Aging Wave Snow Ice Covered Pessimism Cynicism Eighty There Is Hope Die Young

Author:Samuel Ullman

“Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.”

Years Age Youth Years Ago Twenties

Author:Coco Chanel