Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them. Rückert.
Youth ever thinks that good whose goodness or evil he sees not. Sir P. Sidney.
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship 40 fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all! Holmes.
Youth holds no society with grief. Euripides.
Youth is a blunder; manhood, a struggle; old age, a regret. Disraeli.
Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme. Aaron Hill.
Youth is ever confiding; and we can almost forgive its disinclination to follow the counsels of age, for the sake of the generous disdain with which it rejects suspicion. W. H. Harrison.
Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; / 45 Youth is nimble, age is lame: / Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; / Youth is wild, and age is tame. Shakespeare.
Youth is not rich in time; it may be, poor; part with it, as with money, sparing; pay no moment but in purchase of its worth; and what its worth ask death-beds, they can tell. Young.
Youth is not the age of pleasure; we then expect too much, and we are therefore exposed to daily disappointments and mortifications. When we are a little older, and have brought down our wishes to our experience, then we become calm and begin to enjoy ourselves. Lord Liverpool.