Definition of youth

"youth" in the noun sense

1. young person, youth, younker, spring chicken

a young person (especially a young man or boy)

2. young, youth

young people collectively

"rock music appeals to the young"

"youth everywhere rises in revolt"

3. youth

the time of life between childhood and maturity

4. youth

early maturity the state of being young or immature or inexperienced

5. youth, early days

an early period of development

"during the youth of the project"

6. youth, youthfulness, juvenility

the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person

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Quotations for youth

An idle youth, a needy age. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

To be young was very heaven! [ Wordsworth ]

Fame is the thirst of youth. [ Byron ]

Youth is everywhere in place. [ Emerson ]

My salad days;
When I was green in judgment. [ William Shakespeare ]

Age considers, youth ventures. [ Raupach ]

I remember, I remember
How my childhood fleeted by, -
The mirth of its December,
And the warmth of its July. [ Praed ]

Youth is too hasty with words. [ Schiller ]

Standing with reluctant feet,
Where the brook and river meet,
Womanhood and childhood fleet! [ Longfellow ]

Youth should be a savings-bank. [ Madame Swetchine ]

Reckless youth makes rueful age. [ Franklin ]

It is so beautiful to die young! [ Andre Chenier ]

The insect-youth are on the wing,
Eager to taste the honied spring,
And float amid the liquid noon! [ Gray ]

Youth is life's beautiful moment. [ Lacordaire ]

Step by step lift bad to good,
Without halting, without rest.
Lifting Better up to Best;
Planting seeds of knowledge pure.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust,
So nigh is God to man.
When Duty whispers low, Thou must,
The youth replies, I can. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Youth holds no society with grief. [ Euripides ]

The death of youth is a shipwreck. [ Proverb ]

Wine and youth are fire upon fire. [ Fielding ]

Youth comes but once in a lifetime. [ Longfellow ]

If youth knew what age would crave,
It would both get and save. [ Proverb ]

Everything is pretty that is young. [ Richardson ]

A youth to whom was given
So much of earth, so much of heaven. [ Wordsworth ]

Time is the rider that breaks youth. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Mother's truth keeps constant youth. [ Proverb ]

He wears the rose of youth upon him. [ William Shakespeare ]

Young fellows will be young fellows. [ Bickerstaff ]

We must be young to do great things. [ Goethe ]

Our youth we can have but today;
We may always find time to grow old. [ Bishop Berkeley ]

When buttercups are blossoming,
The poets sang, 'tis best to wed:
So all for love we paired in spring -
Blanche and I - ere youth had sped. [ E. C. Stedman ]

Woe to the youth whom fancy gains
Winning from reason's hand the reins. [ Scott ]

Towering in confidence of twenty-one. [ Samuel Johnson ]

Have you found your life distasteful?
My life did, and does, smack sweet.
Was your youth of pleasure wasteful?
Mine I saved 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. [ Browning ]

We have some salt of our youth in us. [ William Shakespeare ]

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. [ Schiller ]

Ah, youth! forever dear, forever kind. [ Homer ]

Knowledge in youth is sapience in age. [ Proverb ]

In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare! [ Homer ]

A youth of frolic, an old age of cards. [ Pope ]

Keep flax from fire, youth from gaming. [ Franklin ]

In youth we learn; in age we understand. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

Examples are the best lessons for youth. [ Proverb ]

A growing youth has a wolf in his belly. [ Proverb ]

No young man believes he shall ever die. [ John Hazlitt ]

Too young for woe, though not for tears. [ Washington Irving ]

In youth, the artless index of the mind. [ Horace Mann ]

The spirit of a youth
That means to be of note, begins betimes. [ Shakespeare ]

From thoughtless youth to ruminating age. [ Cowper ]

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. [ William Shakespeare ]

Those evening bells! those evening bells!
How many a tale their music tells.
Of youth, and home, and that sweet time,
When last I heard their soothing chime! [ Tom Moore ]

Youth without faith is a day without sun. [ Ouida ]

The atrocious crime of being a young man. [ William Pitt ]

Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth. [ Claudianus ]

Youth and white paper take any impression. [ Proverb ]

And both were young, and one was beautiful. [ Byron ]

In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves
For a bright manhood, there is no such word
As Fail. [ Edward Bulwer Lytton ]

When Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. [ Byron ]

The youthful freshness of a blameless heart. [ Washington Irving ]

Youth isn't an affectation. Youth is an art. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

The youth fights that the old man may enjoy. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams
With its illusions, aspirations, dreams!
Book of Beginnings, Story without End,
Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend! [ Longfellow ]

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow;
Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so. [ Pope ]

For youth no less becomes
The light and careless livery that it wears,
Than settled age his sables, and his weeds
Importing health and graveness. [ William Shakespeare ]

Thyself no more deceive, thy youth hath fled. [ Petrarch ]

The flush of youth soon passes from the face,
The spells of fancy from the mind depart;
The form may lose its symmetry, its grace.
But time can claim no victory over the heart. [ Mrs. Dinnies ]

Young men soon give and soon forget affronts;
Old age is slow in both. [ Addison ]

Hail, blooming Youth!
May all your virtues with your years improve,
Till in consummate worth you shine the pride,
Of these our days, and succeeding times,
A bright example. [ Wm. Somerville ]

Youth dreams a bliss on this side death.
It dreams a rest, if not more deep.
More grateful than this marble sleep;
It hears a voice within it tell:
Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.
'Tis all perhaps which man acquires,
But 'tis not what our youth desires. [ Matthew Arnold ]

A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth, and love. [ Byron ]

The stars shall fade away, the Sun himself
Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years;
But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
Unhurt amid the war of elements,
The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds. [ Joseph Addison ]

What is sowed in youth will be reaped in age. [ Proverb ]

For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours. [ Dryden ]

Age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress;
And, as the evening twilight fades away.
The stars are seen by night, invisible by day. [ Longfellow ]

We pay when old for the excesses of our youth. [ Proverb ]

The thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts. [ Lapland Proverb ]

Whom the gods love die young, was said of yore. [ Byron ]

Rashness belongs to youth, prudence to old age. [ Cicero ]

His early dreams of good outstripped the truth,
And troubled manhood followed baffled youth. [ Byron ]

When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,
Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing. [ William Shakespeare ]

Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,
Now green in youth, now withering on the ground;
Another race, the following spring supplies;
They fall successive, and successive rise:
So generations in their course decay;
So flourish these, when those have passed away. [ Homer, Pope's Iliad ]

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together;
Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care;
Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather;
Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.
Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short;
Youth is nimble, age is lame;
Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold;
Youth is wild, and age is tame.
Age, I do abhor thee; youth I do adore thee. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is nothing can equal the tender hours
When life is first in bloom,
When the heart like a bee, in a wild of flowers,
Finds everywhere perfume;
When the present is all and it questions not
If those flowers shall pass away,
But pleased with its own delightful lot,
Dreams never of decay. [ Bohn ]

Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise,
We love the play-place of our early days.
The scene is touching, and the heart is stone.
That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. [ Cowper ]

And made youth younger, and taught life to live. [ Young ]

Mornings are mysteries; the first world's youth,
Mans resurrection, and the future's bud
Shroud in their births. [ Henry Vaughan ]

Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows,
While proudly rising over the azure realm,
In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes,
Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm. [ Gray ]

Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined!
No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet.
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. [ Byron ]

Her years
Were ripe, they might make six-and-twenty springs;
But there are forms which Time to touch forbears,
And turns aside his scythe to vulgar things. [ Byron ]

Happy is the man who sees his faults in his youth. [ Proverb ]

Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy! [ Byron ]

Like virgin parchment, capable of any inscription. [ Massinger ]

O happy unowned youths! your limbs can bear
The scorching dog-star and the winter's air,
While the rich infant, nursed with care and pain,
Thirsts with each heat and coughs with every rain! [ Gay ]

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth. [ Bible ]

Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn,
Like marigolds, toward the sunny side. [ Jean Ingelow ]

The youth is better than the old age of friendship. [ Hazlitt ]

Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly. [ Dryden ]

Eternal Hope! when yonder spheres sublime
Pealed their first notes to sound the march of Time,
Thy joyous youth began - but not to fade -
When all thy sister planets have decayed; [ Thomas Campbell ]

Friendship is a youth to which old age succeeds not. [ At-Tunikhi ]

That exuberant age when all fresh fancies are fevers. [ Miss Braddon ]

Love is the sovereign of youth and the tyrant of age.

My sole resources in the path I trod,
Were these - my bark - my sword - my love — my God.
The last I left in youth - He leaves me now -
And man but works His will to lay me low.
I have no thought to mock His throne with prayer,
Wrung from the coward crouching of despair;
It is enough - I breathe - and I can bear. [ Byron ]

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality. [ Jean Paul ]

Oh! he thou blest with all that Heaven can send.
Long health, long youth, long pleasure - and a friend. [ Pope ]

They are the heritage that glorious minds
Bequeath unto the world! — a glittering store
Of gems, more precious far than those he finds
Who searches miser's hidden treasures over.
They are the light, the guiding star of youth.
Leading his spirit to the realms of thought,
Pointing the way to Virtue, Knowledge, Truth,
And teaching lessons, with deep wisdom fraught.
They cast strange beauty round our earthly dreams,
And mystic brightness over our daily lot;
They lead the soul afar to fairy scenes,
Where the world's under visions enter not;
They're deathless and immortal — ages pass away,
Yet still they speak, instruct, inspire, amidst decay! [ Emeline S. Smith ]

Shall not a man have his spring as well as the plants? [ Thoreau ]

Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. [ Swift ]

So much depends on habit in the tender years of youth. [ Virgil ]

The fate of empires depends upon the education of youth. [ Aristotle ]

A great career is a dream of youth realized in mature age. [ De Vigny ]

O, happy youth! for whom thy fate reserved so fair a bride. [ Dryden ]

'Twas a hand
White, delicate, dimpled, warm, languid, and bland
The hand of a woman is often, in youth.
Somewhat rough, somewhat red, somewhat graceless, in truth;
Does its beauty refine, as its pulses grow calm,
Or as sorrow has crossed the life line in the palm? [ Lord Lytton ]

To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods. [ Beaconsfield ]

The youth of the soul is everlasting, and eternity is youth. [ Jean Paul ]

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. [ Victor Hugo ]

Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Grieve not that I die young.
Is it not well to pass away ere life has lost its brightness? [ Lady Flora Hastings ]

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

Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures. [ Bailey ]

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. [ Aristotle ]

Every man carries in his soul: a sepulchre - that of his youth. [ O. Firmez ]

Age too, shines out, and garrulous recounts the feats of youth. [ Thomson ]

It is less painful to learn in youth than to be ignorant in age. [ Proverb ]

What is that to him that reaps not harvest of his youthful joys,
Though the deep heart of existence beat forever like a boy's? [ Tennyson ]

What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance. [ Goethe ]

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. [ William Shakespeare ]

Youth is covetous of honour; let not this covetousness seduce thee. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be so. [ Camden ]

In youth, one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears. [ Joseph Roux ]

It is useless to have youth without beauty, or beauty without youth. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life. [ Lowell ]

A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [ Cicero ]

Youth and Will may resist excess, but Nature takes revenge in silence. [ A. de Musset ]

I too was once a youth with curly locks, rich in courage and in hopes. [ Lortzing ]

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. [ Goethe ]

O'er the trackless past somewhere lie the lost days of our tropic youth. [ Bret Harte ]

Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration. [ Rivarol ]

A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous. [ Chilo ]

Old age is a tyrant that forbids the pleasures of youth on pain of death. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

I am young, it is true; but in noble souls, valor does not wait for years. [ Corneille ]

Youth is eminently the fittest season for establishing habits of industry. [ Dr. Farr ]

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous. [ Hare ]

Character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and grey hairs. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Let youth dance: tempests of the heart arise after the repose of the limbs. [ Lemontey ]

O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness! [ Victor Hugo ]

The humor of youth, which ever thinks that good whose goodness it sees not. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

I resemble the poplar, - that tree which, even when old, still looks young. [ Joubert ]

Old age is not so fiery as youth, but when once provoked cannot be appeased. [ Proverb ]

A well-bred youth neither speaks of himself, nor, being spoken to, is silent. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

So live, that thy young and glowing breast can think of death without a sigh. [ Eliza Cook ]

Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Loss of strength is more frequently due to the faults of youth than of old age. [ Cicero ]

Deal mildly with his youth; for young hot colts, being raged, do rage the more. [ William Shakespeare ]

The fresh and buoyant sense of being that bounds in youth's yet careless breast. [ Moore ]

While memory watches over the sad review of joys that faded like the morning dew. [ Campbell ]

Let nothing foul to either eye or ear reach those doors within which dwells a boy. [ Juvenal ]

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. [ Southey ]

An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body. [ Cicero ]

There dwelleth in the sinlessness of youth a sweet rebuke that vice may not endure. [ Mrs. Embury ]

The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable. [ Bruyere ]

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in manhood just, and in old age prudent. [ Socrates ]

Secure their religion; season their younger years with prudent and pious principles. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. [ Lactantius ]

The pretension of youth always gives to a woman a few more years than she really has. [ Jouy ]

Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Mend your clothes and you may hold out this year." Press a stick and it seems a youth. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young. [ Haliburton ]

Habit with him was all the test of truth, It must be right: I've done it from my youth. [ Crabbe ]

The heart is always young only in the recollection of those whom it has loved in youth. [ Arsene Houssaye ]

Discouragement is of all ages: in youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance. [ Balzac ]

Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth, and delves the parallels in beauty's brow. [ William Shakespeare ]

I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet. [ Dr. Watts ]

It is a truth but too well known, that rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age. [ Cicero ]

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over. [ George MacDonald ]

As a wild maiden, with love-drinking eyes, sees in sweet dreams a beaming youth of glory. [ Alexander Smith ]

In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself. [ Joubert ]

Youth is presumptuous, old age is timid: the former aspires to live, the latter has lived. [ Mme. Roland ]

Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth. [ Mary Wollstonecraft ]

That eating canker grief, with wasteful spite, preys on the rosy bloom of youth and beauty. [ Rowe ]

Old men who preserve the desires of youth lose in consideration what they gain in ridicule. [ Napoleon I ]

Philosophy writes treatises on old age and friendship; Nature makes those on youth and love. [ D'Alembert ]

What has been sown in the mind of the youth blooms and fructifies in the sun of riper years. [ Alfred Mercier ]

No boy is well prepared for rough climbing, unless he is well shod with Christian principles.

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian dome outlives in fame the pious fool that raised it. [ Colley Gibber ]

Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth: but trust and pity, love and constancy, they do. [ Dickens ]

The heart that has once been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever. [ Landor ]

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain. [ Colton ]

Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license. [ Goethe ]

The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth. [ George Bancroft ]

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall: A mother's secret hope outlives them all. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

The heart of youth is reached through the senses; the senses of age are reached through the heart. [ Ritif de la Bretonne ]

Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, Courage, my boy; that is the complexion of virtue. [ Diogenes Laertius ]

Beautiful as sweet! and young as beautiful! and soft as young! and gay as soft! and innocent as gay! [ Young ]

That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Old books, as you well know, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Not to enjoy one's youth, when one is young, is to imitate the miser who starves beside his treasures. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret. [ Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield) ]

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

He found shelter among books, which insult not, and studies that ask no questions of a youth's finances. [ Lamb ]

Study is the bane of boyhood, the aliment of youth, the indulgence of manhood, and the restorative of age. [ Landor ]

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty. [ Goethe ]

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date. [ Colton ]

Study is the bane of childhood, the aliment of youth, the indulgence of manhood, and the restoration of age. [ Walter Savage Landor ]

Pleasure has its time; so, too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age, attend to thy salvation. [ Voltaire ]

Most nations, as well as men, are impressible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow old. [ Rousseau ]

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into our old age, for old age brings with it its own defects. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Youth will never live to age unless they keep themselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Beautiful are the roses of your youth; but time destroys them; only talents, only virtue age not and never die. [ Pfeffel ]

Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate. [ Landor ]

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections. [ J. Q. Adams ]

All of us who are worth anything spend our manhood in unlearning the follies or expiating the mistakes of our youth. [ Shelley ]

There comes a period of the imagination to each - a later youth - the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry. [ Emerson ]

To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth. [ Stanislaus ]

The greater number of nations, as of men, are only impressible in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow old. [ Rousseau ]

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth. [ Cicero ]

There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the immortals. [ Hazlitt ]

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. [ Isaac Disraeli ]

Who can blame me if I cherish the belief that the world is still young, - that there are great possibilities in store for it? [ Tyndall ]

Behold the morning! Rise up, O youth, and quickly fill thyself with this rosy wine sparkling from the crystal cup of the dawn! [ Omar Khayam ]

After a man has sown his wild oats in the years of his youth, he has still every year to get over a few weeks and days of folly. [ Richter ]

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning. [ Goethe ]

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us in solitude, and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. [ J. Collier ]

The true one of youth's love, proving a faithful helpmate in those years when the dream of life is over, and we live in its realities. [ Southey ]

The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness. [ Hazlitt ]

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 ]

The youth longs so to love, the maiden so to be loved; ah! why does there spring out of this holiest of all our instincts such agonising pain? [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth, - by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood becomes the genius that rules the rest of life. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]

Brethren, life is passing; youth goes, strength decays. But duty performed, work done for God - this abides forever, this alone is imperishable. [ Richard Fuller ]

O youth! ephemeral song, eternal canticle! The world may end, the heavens fall, yet loving voices would still find an echo in the ruins of the universe! [ Jules Janin ]

Look upon every day, O youth, as the whole of life, not merely as a section, and enjoy the present without wishing, through haste, to spring on to another. [ Jean Paul ]

Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Youth is not like a new garment which we can keep fresh and fair by wearing sparingly. Youth, while we have it, we must wear daily; and it will fast wear away. [ John Foster ]

Women are only told that they resemble angels when they are young and beautiful; consequently, it is their persons, not their virtues, that procure them homage. [ Phoebe Gary ]

Which of us that is thirty years old has not had his Pompeii? Deep under ashes lie life, youth, the careless sports, the pleasures and passions, the darling joy. [ William M. Thackeray ]

Youth beholds happiness gleaming in the prospect. Age looks back on the happiness of youth, and, instead of hopes, seeks its enjoyment in the recollection of hope. [ Coleridge ]

In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation. [ Madame Swetchine ]

Youth is like those verdant forests tormented by winds: it agitates on every side the abundant gifts of nature, and some profound murmur always reigns in its foliage. [ M. de Guerin ]

Love is a bird of passage that women await with curiosity in youth, retain with pleasure in maturer years, and allow to escape with regret when old age creeps upon them. [ A. Ricard ]

Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature. [ Sears ]

Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel that their beautiful generations concern not us; we have had our day; now let the children have theirs. [ R. W. Emerson ]

Some old men, by continually praising the time of their youth, would almost persuade us that there were no fools in those days; but unluckily they are left themselves for examples. [ Pope ]

And now he shook away the snow of time from the winter-green of memory, and beheld the fair years of his childhood uncovered, fresh, green, and balmy, standing afar off before him. [ Richter ]

When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

What the tender and poetic youth dreams today, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is tomorrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations. [ Emerson ]

In the youth of a State, arms do flourish; in the middle age of a State, learning; and then both of them together for a time; in the declining age of a State, mechanical arts and merchandise. [ Bacon ]

Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland, odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows, ere we have learnt that this fair earth hides graves. [ Countess of Blessington ]

I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step. [ Juvenal ]

Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable celestial barrier, and the sacred air-castles of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality, and man by his nature is yet infinite and free. [ Carlyle ]

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. To hear them talk one would imagine they were in their first childhood. As far as civilization goes they are in their second. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

There is nothing like youth. The middle aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile, like most kings. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful; and I am afraid that, whether married or unmarried, we shall find the vesture of terrestrial existence more heavy and cumbrous the longer it is worn. [ Steele ]

Many classes are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the era of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the springtime of their hopes! [ C. Bingham ]

No unity can last, in married life, unless the fellowship of hearts is accompanied by the fellowship of minds. As a woman loses the charms of her youth, her husband must perceive that her mind is developing, and love must be perpetuated by esteem. [ Dupanloup ]

We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding. [ Goethe ]

These studies are the food of youth and the consolation of old age; they adorn prosperity and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home and are no encumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats. [ Cicero ]

A blushing young damsel of 109 has just died at Mallow, Ireland. She had been an ardent smoker of twist tobacco for 81 years, and finally died in the bloom of her youth. To make matters worse, she was an orphan. Those who do not wish to die young should make a note of this. [ Tobacco Jokes For Smoking Folks, 1888 ]

Nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor. [ Voltaire ]

Nature is sanitive, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love. [ Emerson ]

A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God ever gives us. [ Bovee ]

Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill. [ William Shakespeare ]

I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect. [ Dr. Johnson ]

One is more honest in youth, and to the age of thirty years, than when one has passed it. It is only after that age that one's illusions are dispelled. Until then, one resembles the dog that defends the dinner of his master against other dogs: after this period, he takes his share of it with the others. [ Chamfort ]

Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life. [ Watts ]

At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful inquiry, we never hear another word. Like certain chintzes, calicoes, and ginghams, they show finely on their first newness, but cannot stand the sun and rain, and assume a very sober aspect after washing day. [ Hawthorne ]

Maggie and Stephen were in that stage of courtship which makes the most exquisite moment of youth, the freshest blossom-time of passion, - when each is sure of the other's love, but no formal declaration has been made, and all is mutual divination, exalting the most trivial words, the lightest gestures, into thrills delicate and delicious as wafted jasmine scent. [ George Eliot ]

A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time; but that happeneth rarely. Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second; for there is a youth in thoughts as well as in ages; and yet the invention of young men is more lively than that of old, and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely. [ Bacon ]

The mother begins her process of training with the infant in her arms. It is she who directs, so to speak, its first mental and spiritual pulsations; she conducts it along the impressible years of childhood and youth, and hopes to deliver it to the rough contests and tumultuous scenes of life, armed by those good principles which her child has received from maternal care and love. [ D. Webster ]

A woman at middle age retains nothing of the pettiness of youth; she is a friend who gives you all the feminine delicacies, who displays all the graces, all the prepossessions which Nature has given to woman to please man, but who no longer sells these qualities. She is hateful or lovable, according to her pretensions to youth, whether they exist under the epidermis or whether they are dead. [ Balzac ]

Courage, by keeping the senses quiet, and the understanding clear, puts us in a condition to receive true intelligence, to make just computations upon danger, and pronounce rightly upon that which threatens us. Innocence of life, consciousness of worth, and great expectations, are the best foundations of courage. These ingredients make a richer cordial than youth can prepare. They warm the heart at eighty, and seldom fail in operation. [ Collier ]

The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue to works of fiction; and Adam Clarke gives a list of tales that won his boyish admiration. Books of entertainment led him to believe in a spiritual world; and he felt sure of having been a coward, but for romances. He declared that he had learned more of his duty to God, his neighbor and himself from Robinson Crusoe than from all the books, except the Bible, that were known to his youth. [ Willmott ]

The love of flowers seems a naturally implanted passion, without any alloy or debasing object in its motive; we cherish them in youth, we admire them in declining years; but perhaps it is the early flowers of spring that always bring with them the greatest degree of pleasure; and our affections seem to expand at the sight of the first blossom under the sunny wall, or sheltered bank, however humble its race may be. With summer flowers we seem to live, as with our neighbors, in harmony and good order; but spring flowers are cherished as private friendships. [ G. A. Sola ]

The love of a mother is never exhausted; it never changes, it never tires. A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands; but a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; she still remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of Iris childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy. [ W. Irving ]

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Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

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youth in Words With Friends™

The word youth is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

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Words within the letters of youth

2 letter words in youth (3 words)

3 letter words in youth (6 words)

4 letter words in youth (1 word)

5 letter words in youth (1 word)

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Words containing the sequence youth

Words with youth in them (2 words)

Words that end with youth (1 word)

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Shorter words in youth

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Longer words containing youth

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