youth

She bid me take love easy as the leaves grow on the tree But I being young and foolish with her would not agree.

In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves For a bright manhood there is no such word As fail.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backward while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong but it will advance its allotted length.

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility Young people hereabouts unbridled now Just want.

Trouble is kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together Youth is full of pleasure age is full of care Youth like summer morn age like winter weather Youth like summer brave age like winter bare. Youth is full 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 age is tame. Age I do abhor thee youth I do adore thee.

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.

One boy's a boy two boys are half a boy three boys are no boy at all.

Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes they turn Like marigolds toward the sunny side.

The youth gets together this material to build a bridge to the moon or perchance a palace or temple on earth and at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history.

The interests of childhood and youth are the interests of mankind.

Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.

What though youth gave love and roses Age still leaves us friends and wine.

This is a youth-oriented society and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.

Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!