Best youth & fool Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.”

“All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs of my fool-driven land; Now nothing but comes readier to the hand Than this accustomed toil.”

Needs Hands Faces Poetry Land Youth Poet Fool All Things Driven Crafts Distraction One Time Verses Toil Accustomed Seeming

Book:Poems of William Butler Yeats

Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats

“Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid, Force many a shining youth into the shade, Not to redeem his time, but his estate, And play the fool, but at the cheaper rate.”

Play Force Youth Fool Bills Shining Rate Debt Shade Estates Cheaper

Book:Poems ... With a sketch of his life and a vindication of his religious principles and character. Third edition, corrected and enlarged. [With a portrait.]

Source: Poems ... With a sketch of his life and a vindication of his religious principles and character. Third edition, corrected and enlarged. [With a portrait.]

“Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.”

Thinking Knows Men Age Young Human Nature Youth Fool Young Man Folly Old Man

Author:George Chapman

“For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.”

Giving Passion Literature Youth Fool Insight Idiot Simpletons Village Idiots

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.”

Thinking Men Facts Age Time Left Example Youth Fool Praise Aging Old Man

Author:Alexander Pope

“With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.”

Men Might Fall Five Youth Fool Limits Falling In Love Extremes Thirty

Book:The Moon and Sixpence

Source: The Moon and Sixpence

“In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.”

Dream Law Youth Fool Becoming My Friends Deeds Finance Realms Heroic Engineering Librarian Hardy Heroic Deeds

Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night

“Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

Hands Lord Youth Fool Lovers Band Mortals Fairy Captains Fees Pleading Pageant

Book:The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings

Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings

“I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.”

Men Action Sin Common Wise Mankind Youth Fool Ought Ashamed Temper Irrational Repent

Book:Robinson Crusoe

Source: Robinson Crusoe

“Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.”

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