Youthful Quotes
More Youthful Quotes
I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the programme which I most desired to see was the one described as'The Boneless Wonder'. My parents judged that the spectacle would be too revolting and demoralizing for my youthful eyes, and I have waited 50 years to see the boneless wonder sitting on theTreasury Bench.
Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill— 1931 Alluding to Ramsay MacDonald. Speech in the House of Commons, 28 Jan.
My native country was full of youthful promise; Europe was rich in the accumulated treasures of age.
washington irving— 1819-20 The Sketch Book,'The Author's Account of Himself'.
Such sights as youthful poets dream, on summer eves by haunted stream.
john milton— c.1631 L'Allegro, l.129-30.
When his friends, says Czerny, speak to him of his youthful renown, he replies: "Ah, nonsense! I have never thought of writing for renown and glory. What I have in my heart must out; that is why I write."
Ludwig van Beethoven— Antiques Digest, "Portrait of Beethoven in His Thirtieth Year" (1915)
But most, thro' midnight streets I hearHow the youthful Harlot’s curseBlasts the new born Infant’s tear,And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.
william blake— London, st. 4
My native country was full of youthful promise; Europe was rich in the accumulated treasures of age.
washington irving— "The Author's Account of Himself".
In a wood they call the Rouge Bouquet,There is a new-made grave today,Built by never a spade nor pick,Yet covered with earth ten meteres thick.There lie many fighting men.Dead in their youthful primeNever to laugh nor love againNor taste the Summertime.
joyce kilmer— "Rouge Bouquet" (1918)
The public of this country is so youthful, not to say simple-minded, that it cannot understand the meaning of a fable unless the moral is set forth at the end. Unable to see a joke, insensible to irony, it has, in a word, been badly brought up. It has not yet learned that in a decent book, as in decent society, open invective can have no place; that our present-day civilisation has invented a keener weapon, none the less deadly for being almost invisible, which, under the cloak of flattery, strikes with sure and irresistible effect.
mikhail lermontov— A Hero of Our Time
Our own unresolved authority problems from our youth sometimes get transferred to our youthful patients, because we are still "covert adolescent rebels." In subtle ways, we encourage the adolescent patient to rebel towards parents, school authorities, and society in general.
virgil miller newton— Miller Newton (1995). Adolescence: Guiding Youth Through the Perilous Ordeal. W.W. Norton and Company, NY, NY, pg 67.
Is she not more than painting can express,Or youthful poets fancy when they love?
nicholas rowe— Act iii, scene 1.
Fly, like a youthful hart or roe,Over the hills where spices grow.
Isaac Watts— Hymn 79, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book I.
On thy wither’d lips and dry, Which like barren furrows lie, Brooding kisses I will pour, Shall thy youthful heart restore. (Such kind showers in autumn fall, And a second spring recall); Nor from thee will ever part, Ancient Person of my Heart.
wilmot, john, 2nd earl of rochester— A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover, ll. 7-14.
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle. [It] has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.
john cheever— Accepting National Medal for Literature (April 27, 1982)
England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.
lydia maria child— Supposititious Speech of James Otis. The Rebels, Chap. iv.
Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages, That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone! If Werther had been my brother, and I'd killed him, His sad ghost could hardly have persecuted me more.
— Elegy 2 (First version)
There was something in the wild strength of this landscape, once a battlefield, that seemed to be shouting at him, a presence born of that strength whose cry his whole being recognized as familiar, caught and threw back into the wind, some youthful passage of courage and pride the passionate, yet so nearly always hypocritical, affirmation of one’s soul perhaps, he thought, of the desire to be, to do, good, what was right.
malcolm lowry— Ch. IV (p. 124)
Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful jollity, Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathèd smiles.
john milton— Line 25. (L'Allegro (1631))
And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild, And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.
john milton— Line 127. Compare: "Wisdom married to immortal verse", William Wordsworth, The Excursion, book vii.
I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself. No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.
friedrich nietzsche— “Schopenhauer as educator,” § 3.1, R. Hollingdale, trans. (1983), pp. 128-129
I 'd rather be handsome than homely; I 'd rather be youthful than old; If I can't have a bushel of silver I'll do with a barrel of gold.
james jeffrey roche— Contentment, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
And bid the cheek be ready with a blush Modest as morning when she coldly eyes The youthful Phœbus.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (c. 1602), Act I, scene 3, line 228.
Hundreds of other cult leaders have gathered far more followers than Jones by promising new psychological and spiritual utopias. They have succeeded by combining various ages-old psychological and social persuasion techniques in an atmosphere os Madison Avenue soft-sell approaches. Because most of the followers have been youthful or poor, little attention and credence has been given to reports from ex-members, families and friends who report the effects of the techniques of manipulation used by the groups.
— Margaret Singer, Ph.D., The "Not Me" Myth: Orwell and the Mind, January 19, 1996 - Vol.2, no.2, ISSN 1523-1712, Idea Journal
From 1931 to 1935, I was an undergraduate at Cambridge in my father's old college, Gonville and Caius, which was particularly strong in medicine and the law. However, after two years of law I switched to economics , much to my father's disappointment. At that time the world was in the depth of the great depression and my motive for wanting to change subject was the belief, bred of youthful ignorance and optimism, that if only economics were better understood, the world would be a better place.
— Richard Stone (1984), "Richard Stone - Biographical". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2013. Web. 14 Jun 2014.
Refuse all excess , except in youthful enthusiasm .
— Fausto Cercignani in: Brian Morris, Simply Transcribed. Quotations from Fausto Cercignani, 2014, p. 39.
Is she not more than painting can express, Or youthful poets fancy when they love?
— Act iii, scene 1.
In a wood they call the Rouge Bouquet, There is a new-made grave today, Built by never a spade nor pick, Yet covered with earth ten meters thick. There lie many fighting men, Dead in their youthful prime.
joyce kilmer— Joyce Kilmer, Rouge Bouquet.
High in the home of the summers, the seats of the happy immortals, Shrouded in knee-deep blaze, unapproachable; there ever youthful Hebé, Harmonié, and the daughter of Jove, Aphrodité, Whirled in the white-linked dance, with the gold-crowned Hours and Graces.
Charles Kingsley— Charles Kingsley, Andromeda. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents stain thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That sweetly warbles o'er its bed, With white, round, polish'd pebbles spread.
tobias smollett— Tobias Smollett, Ode to Leven Water, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 437.
