Youthful Quotes
More Youthful Quotes
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
A Spring returns, and they more youthful made;But Man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.
anne bradstreet— Contemplations
I was surprised as anyone when T-shirts, jeans and leather jackets suddenly became symbols of rebellion. In the film there was a scene in which somebody asked my character, Johnny, what I was rebelling against, and I answered 'Whaddya got?' But none of us involved in the picture ever imagined that it would instigate or encourage youthful rebellion.
Marlon Brando— Speaking about the film The Wild One (1953) in Songs My Mother Taught Me (1994)
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)
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.
[Nietzsche inveighs] against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or enfeebled instincts of decadence. He preaches with youthful enthusiasm the triumph of a tragic culture, introduced by an intrepid rising generation, in which the spirit of ancient Greece might be born again. He rejects the pessimism of Schopenhauer, for he already abhors all renunciation; but he seeks a pessimism of healthiness, one derived from strength, from exuberant power, and he believes he has found it in the Greeks.
georg brandes— p. 21 (An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889))
It is a long way from Combourg to Berlin, from a youthful dreamer to an old minister. I find among the words preceding these: ‘In how many places have I already continued writing these Memoirs, and in what place will I finish them?'
françois-rené de chateaubriand— In Berlin, (March 1821); Book IV, Chapter 1: Berlin – Potsdam – Frederick
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)
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))
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).
The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our rivals, nay, frequently our models, in those very points of superiority from which we seek comfort when regretting the unnatural character of our manners. We see that remarkable people uniting at once fullness of form and fullness of substance, both philosophising and creating, both tender and energetic, uniting a youthful fancy to the virility of reason in a glorious humanity.
friedrich von schiller— Letter 35. (On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794))
Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more.
walter scott— Canto V, stanza 1.
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.
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)
Refuse all excess, except in youthful enthusiasm .
— Fausto Cercignani in: Brian Morris, Simply Transcribed. Quotations from Fausto Cercignani, Lulu Press, 2nd ed. 2014 p. 39.
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.
