Best youth & pleasant Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.”

Home Age Night Study Youth Comfort Adversity Prosperity Pleasant Refuge Retreat Consolation Accompany Accompany Us

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom add what will equal the generous first growths of our youth, yet friendship becomes insensibly old in much less time than is commonly imagined, and not many years are required to make it mellow and pleasant.”

Thinking Should Years Firsts Wells Growth Youth Equal Wine Add Generous Pleasant Mellow Cellars

Book:The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search for them, or even invent them. But with all that, boredom is their natural and inevitable accompaniment.”

Age Natural Youth Illusion Old Age Inevitable Pleasant Boredom Cherish

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.”

Ifs Thinking Men Years Looks Age Young Youth Fit Satisfaction Former Enjoyment Pleasant Infancy Former Life

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.”

Way Should Eye Joy Beauty Youth Bitter Vanity Pleasant Covered Bitterness Her Eyes Gave Up Nun Bitter Truth Covered Up

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

“Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.”

Source: Little Women (Illustrated Edition)

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