Quotes About The Joys Of Youth

#1. Our age gives the more receptive among the young such a sense of social responsibility that one is inclined at times to fear that social interests may encroach upon individual development, that a knowledge of all the ills affecting the community may act as too powerful a damper on the joys of youth.

Ellen Key

#2. Fear is for the old. Lack of it is one of the joys of youth.

Helen Van Slyke

#3. He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

Charles Caleb Colton

#4. If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. Have you found your life distasteful?
My life did and does smack sweet.
Was your youth of pleasure wasteful?
Mine I save and hold complete.
Do your joys with age diminish?
When mine fail me, I'll complain.
Must in death your daylight finish?
My sun sets to rise again.

Robert Browning

#6. this absolute power of God over man is counterbalanced by the idea that man is God's potential rival.

Erich Fromm

#7. I lived like a bear, in a little room, with books for my only friends . . . These were the joys and debaucheries of my youth.

Andrew Roberts

#8. My piano is to me what a ship is to the sailor, what a steed is to the Arab. It is the intimate personal depository of everything that stirred wildly in my brain during the most impassioned days of my youth. It was there that all my wishes, all my dreams, all my joys, and all my sorrows lay.

Franz Liszt

#9. We all go through periods of anguish, times when we think we can't face what lies ahead. But the only way to get past it is to go through it, straight through it. No detours, no camouflage, no running. You have to meet problems head-on, despite the pain.

Diana Palmer

#10. Can we follow the Savior far, who have no wound or scar?

Amy Carmichael

#11. It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Edmund Spenser

#12. The old age comes very quickly; let us welcome it and find new joys and new pursuits not known in the youth!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.

Alfred De Musset

#14. Even such is time, that takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, our all we have,
And pays us but with age and dust.

Walter Raleigh

#15. The worst of misery
Is when a nature framed for noblest things
Condemns itself in youth to petty joys,
And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life
Gasping from out the shallows.

George Eliot

#16. What do these so-called artists mean when they preach the discovery of the'new'? Is there anything new? Everything has been done, everything has been discovered.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

#17. Say, doth she weep for very wantonness?
Or is it that she dimly doth foresee
Across her youth the joys grow less and less
The burden of the days that are to be:
Autumn and withered leaves and vanity,
And winter bringing end in barrenness."
-from "My Lady April

Ernest Dowson

#18. Such, such were the joys
When we all, girls and boys,
In our youth time were seen
On the Echoing Green.

William Blake

#19. Our life is like th' unstable wave, Our bloom of youth decays. Our joys are brief as lightning flash In summer's cloudy days, Our riches fleet as swift as thought; Faith in the One Supreme Alone will bear us o'er the gulfs Of Being's stormy stream.

Bhartrhari

#20. Even such is Time, which takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, and all we have,
And pays us but with age and dust;
Who in the dark and silent grave,
When we have wandered all our ways,
Shuts up the story of our days.

Walter Raleigh

#21. Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.

John Dryden

#22. Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.

Blaise Pascal

#23. But flaming youth in all it's madness
Keeps nothing of its heart concealed:
It's loves and hates, its joys and sadness,
Are babbled out and soon revealed.

Alexander Pushkin

#24. Take this to heart and doubt not that you are the one who killed Christ. Your sins certainly did, and when you see the nails driven through his hands, be sure that you are pondering, and when the thorns pierce his brow, know that they are your evil thoughts.

Martin Luther

#25. Youth's the season made for joys, Love is then our duty.

John Gay

#26. In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.

Horace

#27. Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.

Dorothy Parker

#28. How are you going to love yourself, if you can't love somebody else

Ralph Saulog