Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food. Joubert.

Young Christians think themselves little; growing Christians think themselves nothing; full-grown Christians think themselves less than nothing. John Newton.

Young folk, silly folk; old folk, cold folk. 10 Dut. Pr.

Young hot colts, being raged, do rage the more. Rich. II., ii. 1.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. Chesterfield.

Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business. Bacon.

Young men soon give, and soon forget affronts; old age is slow in both. Addison.

Young men think that old men are fools; but 15 old men know young men are fools. Chapman.

Young people are quick enough to observe and imitate. (?)

Your acts are detectives, keener and more unerring than ever the hand of sensational novelist depicted; they will dog you from the day you sinned till the hour your trial comes off. Disraeli to young men.