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Youth Quotes - Page 18

For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.

John Dryden (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden. With Illustrations by John Franklin”, p.260

American youth is looking for a reason to die.

Jerry Rubin (1970). “Do it; scenarios of the revolution”, Touchstone

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

James Russell Lowell (1897). “The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry ...”

Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.

"The Midas touch". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2009.

Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and cellars.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.110

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.133, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

They are the follies inherent to youth; I make sport of them, and, if you are kind, you will not yourself refuse them a good-natured smile.

Giacomo Casanova “The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt”, Library of Alexandria

An Idle youth, a needy Age.

George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.323

There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1994, Delphi Classics