"An entire fraternity of strapping Wall-Street-bound youth. Hell - this
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that it is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
Of surpassing beauty and in the bloom of youth.
How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backwards to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.--_Colton._
In heaven the angels are advancing continually to the spring-time of their youth, so that the oldest angel appears the youngest.
There are two things which grow stronger in the breast of man, in proportion as he advances in years: the love of country and religion. Let them be never so much forgotten in youth, they sooner or later present themselves to us arrayed in all their charms, and excite in the recesses of our hearts an attachment justly due to their beauty.--_Chateaubriand._
Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.
A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.
All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.
Auch ich war ein Jungling mit lockigem Haar, / An Mut und an Hoffnungen reich=--I too was once a youth with curly locks, rich in courage and in hopes.
An old man cries out, "O that youth would return for a day, that I might relate to it what the roll of years has done to me!"
We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold. Qualities in excess are inimical to us and not apparent to the senses, we do not feel but are passive under them. The weakness of youth and age equally hinder the mind, as also too much and too little teaching....
Take it to the Streets “Pray continually”(1 Thessalonians 5:17). I’ve enjoyed walking since my youth and continue to enjoy it today as my number one cardiovascular activity. I find walking to be the most flexible and relaxing exercise. No special equipment or skills are needed – just a good pair of shoes and sensible clothing. It can be done anywhere and anytime with a friend or by myself. There can also be both spiritual and physical benefits by combining prayer with walking. What walking accomplishes in building a strong body, prayer achieves in building spiritual strength. Your body requires exercise and food, and it needs these things regularly. Once a week won’t suffice. Your spiritual needs are similar to your physical needs, and so praying once a week is as effective as eating once a week. The Bible tells us to pray continually in order to have a healthy, growing spiritual life. Prayer walking is just what it sounds like — simply walking and talking to God. Prayer walking can take a range of approaches from friends or family praying as they walk around schools, neighbourhoods, work places, and churches, to structured prayer campaigns for particular streets and homes. I once participated in a prayer walk in Ottawa where, as a group, we marched to Parliament Hill and prayed for our governments, provinces, and country. In the Bible, there are many references to walking while thinking and meditating on the things of God. Genesis 13:17 says, “Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.” The prophet Micah declared, “All the nations may walk in the name of their gods, we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.” (Micah 4:5) And in Joshua 14:9 it says, “So on that day Moses swore to me, ‘The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance and that of your children forever, because you have
Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle?
A growing youth has a wolf in his belly.
The youth of the soul is everlasting, and eternity is youth.
The moral sense is a very complex affair--dependent in part upon associations of pleasure and pain, approbation and disapprobation formed by education in early youth, but in part also on an innate sense of moral beauty and ugliness (how originated need not be discussed), which is possessed by some people in great strength, while some are totally devoid of it--just as some children draw, or are enchanted by music while mere infants, while others do not know "Cherry Ripe" from "Rule Britannia," nor can represent the form of the simplest thing to the end of their lives.
In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As "fail."
La plupart des peuples, ainsi que des hommes, ne sont dociles que dans leur jeunesse; ils deviennent incorrigibles en vieillisant=--Most nations, as well as men, are impressible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow old.
Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,-- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.
"And thus he will think to render himself master of all the empire of Egypt,"--despising the youth of Epiphanes, says Justin.
In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!
~Youth.~--The canker galls the infants of the spring, too oft before their buttons be disclosed; and in the morn and liquid dew of youth contagious blastments are most imminent.--_Shakespeare._
By the margin of fair Zurich's waters Dwelt a youth, whose fond heart, night and day, For the fairest of fair Zurich's daughters In a dream of love melted away.
Intemperans adolescentia effetum corpus tradet senectuti=--An incontinent youth will transmit a worn-out bodily frame to old age.
Her air, her manners, all who saw admir'd; Courteous though coy, and gentle though retir'd; The joy of youth and health her eyes display'd, And ease of heart her every look convey'd.
As full-blown poppies, overcharg'd with rain, Decline the head, and drooping kiss the plain,-- So sinks the youth; his beauteous head, deprest Beneath his helmet, drops upon his breast.
Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence.
The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.
In cute curanda plus ?quo operata juventus=--Youth unduly busy with pampering the outer man.
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
p. 258, ed. 1661._ Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days. But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Crabbed age and youth / Cannot live together.
A long, long kiss,--a kiss of youth and love.
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
Make your educational laws strict, and your criminal ones may be gentle; but leave youth its liberty, and you will have to dig dungeons for age.
While men sleep, / Sad-hearted mothers heave, that wakeful lie, / To muse upon some darling child / Roaming in youth's uncertain wild.
The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.
A very riband in the cap of youth.
Life is too much for most. So much of age, so little of youth; living, for the most part, in the moment, and dating existence by the memory of its burdens.
Antiquitas s?culi juventus mundi=--The ancient time of the world was the youth of the world.
The disappointment of manhood succeeds to the delusion of youth: let us hope that the heritage of old age is not despair.
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
Reason's a staff for age when Nature's gone; / But youth is strong enough to walk alone.
On the word in Genesis, viii. 21. The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.
Herder and Schiller both in their youth intended to study as surgeons, but Destiny said: "No, there are deeper wounds than those of the body,--heal the deeper!" and they wrote.--_Richter._
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age.
Every one believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.
'Tis now the summer of your youth; time has not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them. Then use your beauty wisely; and, freed by injuries, fly from the cruellest of men, for shelter with the kindest.
Have you found your life distasteful? / My life did, and does, smack sweet. / Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? / Mine I saved and hold complete. / Do your joys with age diminish? / When mine fail me, I'll complain. / Must in death your daylight finish? / My sun sets to rise again.
Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
O kaum bezwingen wir das eigne Herz; / Wie soll die rasche Jugend sich bezahmen!=--Oh, we can hardly subdue our own heart; how shall impetuous youth restrain itself!
O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellions hell, If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones, To flaming youth let virtue be as wax, And melt in her own fire: proclaim no shame When the compulsive ardour gives the charge, Since frost itself as actively doth burn, And reason panders will.
Crabbed age and youth Cannot live together.
Der Jungling kampft, damit der Greis geniesse=--The youth fights that the old man may enjoy.
How the ages of man should be depicted: that is, infancy, childhood, youth, manhood, old age, decrepitude. How old men should be depicted with lazy and slow movements, their legs bent at the knees when they stand still, and their feet placed parallel and apart, their backs bent, their heads leaning forward and their arms only slightly extended.
'T is now the summer of your youth. Time has not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.
Use thy youth so that thou mayest have comfort to remember it when it hath forsaken thee, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof. Use it as the springtime which soon departeth, and wherein thou oughtest to plant and sow all provisions for a long and happy life.
The heart of youth is reached through the senses; the senses of age are reached through the heart.--_Rétif de la Bretonne._
Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, / Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune, and harsh; / That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth / Blasted with ecstacy: O, woe is me, / To have seen what I have seen, see what I see.
Age oppresses by the same degrees that it instructs us, and permits not that our mortal members, which are frozen with our years, should retain the vigor of our youth.--_Dryden._
Those of us who are worth anything spend our manhood in unlearning the follies or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
O fortunate adolescens, qui tu? virtutis Homerum pr?conem inveneris=--Oh, happy youth, to have a Homer as the publisher of thy valour. _Alexander the Great at the tomb of Achilles._
Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
Ah, youth! forever dear, forever kind.
He whom the gods favour dies in youth.
Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.
~Travel.~--Rather see the wonders of the world abroad, than, living dully sluggardized at home wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.--_Shakespeare._
Unselfish and noble acts are the most radiant epochs in the biography of souls. When wrought in the earliest youth, they lie in the memory of age like the coral islands, green and sunny amidst the melancholy waste of ocean.
"What is wanting," said Napoleon one day to Madame Campan, "in order that the youth of France be well educated?" "Good mothers," was the reply. The Emperor was most forcibly struck with this answer. "Here," said he, "is a system in one word."
Perhaps we need to separate youth from education. Education lasts forever. Youth is the time for exploration, maturation, socialization.
O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.--_Victor Hugo._
How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams, / With its allusions, aspirations, dreams! / Book of beginnings, story without end, / Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend.
On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth: Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.
A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, The perfume and suppliance of a minute.
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, / So near is God to man, / When Duty whispers low, "Thou must," / The youth replies, "I can!"
The excesses of our youth are draughts upon our age, payable with interest about thirty years after date.
Love is wasted on the youth, I tell you. Wasted!
Character gives splendour to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and grey hairs.
We that are in the vaward of our youth.
We have some salt of our youth in us.
In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.
In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.
And often did beguile her of her tears, When I did speak of some distressful stroke That my youth suffer'd. My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs; She swore, in faith, 't was strange, 't was passing strange. 'T was pitiful, 't was wondrous pitiful; She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd That Heaven had made her such a man; she thank'd me, And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake: She loved me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I loved her that she did pity them. This only is the witchcraft I have used.
Libidinosa et intemperans adolescentia eff?tum corpus tradit senectuti=--A sensual and intemperate youth transmits to old age a worn-out body.
Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in manhood just, and in old age prudent.
Then in the strife the youth puts forth his powers, / Knows what he is, and feels himself a man.
The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
Life is short, short, brother! Ain't it the truth? And there is no other Ain't it the truth? You gotta rock that rainbow while you still got your youth! Oh! Ain't it the solid truth?
He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man.
Wealth, power, and even the advantages of youth, have little to do with that which gives repose to the mind and firmness to the frame.
Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I 'll protect it now.
For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood.
If a man should register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc., beginning from his youth, and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.--_Swift._
In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare.
The camomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster it grows; yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears.= 1
Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, / When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
H?c studia adolescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis solatium ac perfugium pr?bent, delectant domi, non impediunt foris, pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur=--These studies are the food of youth and the consolation of old age; they adorn prosperity and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home and are no encumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.
Childhood and youth see all the world in persons.
On and on and on and on he strode, far out over the sands, singing wildly to the sea, crying to greet the advent of the life that had cried to him. Her image had passed into his soul for ever and no word had broken the holy silence of his ecstasy. Her eyes had called him and his soul had leaped at the call. To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life! A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory. On and on and on and on!
All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.
He was indeed the glass Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.
Look upon every day, O youth, as the whole of life, not merely as a section, and enjoy the present without wishing, through haste, to spring on to another.
A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age.
To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the chequer'd shade.
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into our old age, for old age brings with it its own defects.
Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.
History shows that the majority of the men who have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven.
In youth it is too early, in old age it is too late to marry.
There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.
Jeder Jungling sehnt sich so zu lieben. / Jedes Madchen so geliebt zu sein: / Ach, der heiligste von unsern Trieben / Warum quillt aus ihm die grimme Pein?=--The youth longs so to love, the maiden so to be loved; ah! why does there spring out of this holiest of all our instincts such agonising pain?
The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon: Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes: The canker galls the infants of the spring Too oft before their buttons be disclosed, And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent.
Viamque insiste domandi, / Dum faciles animi juvenum, dum mobilis ?tas=--Enter upon the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliant, while they are at that period when the mind is docile.
La libertad es la juventud eterna de las naciones=--Liberty is the eternal youth of the nations.
What the present generation ought to learn, the young as well as the old, is spirit and perseverance to discover the beautiful, pleasure and joy in making it known, and resigning ourselves with grateful hearts to its enjoyment; in a word--love, in the old, true, eternal meaning of the word. Only sweep away the dust of self-conceit, the cobwebs of selfishness, the mud of envy, and the old type of humanity will soon reappear, as it was when it could still 'embrace millions.' The love of mankind, the true fountain of all humanity, is still there; it can never be quite choked up. He who can descend into this fountain of youth, who can again recover himself, who can again be that which he was by nature, loves the beautiful wherever he finds it; he understands enjoyment and enthusiasm, in the few quiet hours which he can win for himself in the noisy, deafening hurry of the times in which we live.
Dissimulation in youth is the forerunner of perfidy in old age.
The bridge of thoughts and sighs that spans the whole history of the Aryan world has its first arch in the _Veda_, its last in Kant's _Critique of Pure Reason_. In the _Veda_ we watch the first unfolding of the human mind as we can watch it nowhere else. Life seems simple, natural, childlike.... What is beneath, and above, and beyond this life is dimly perceived, and expressed in a thousand words and ways, all mere stammerings, all aiming to express what cannot be expressed, yet all full of a belief in the real presence of the Divine in Nature, of the Infinite in the Finite.... While in the _Veda_ we may study the childhood, we may study in Kant's _Critique_ the perfect manhood of the Aryan mind. It has passed through many phases, and every one of them ... has left its mark. It is no longer dogmatical, no longer sceptical, least of all is it positive.... It stands before us conscious of its weakness and its strength, modest yet brave. It knows what the old idols of its childhood and youth were made of. It does not break them, it only tries to understand them, but it places above them the Ideals of Reason--no longer tangible--not even within the reach of the understanding--but real--bright and heavenly stars to guide us even in the darkest night.
Whether a child, or an old man, or a youth, be come to thy house, he is to be treated with respect; for of all men, thy guest is the superior.
Philosophy is to poetry what old age is to youth; and the stern truths of philosophy are as fatal to the fictions of the one as the chilling testimonies of experience are to the hopes of the other.
The movements of men are as varied as the {121} circumstances which pass through their minds; and men will be more or less actuated by every circumstance in itself according as they are more or less powerful and according to age; because in the same circumstance an old man or a youth will make a different movement.