Samuel Johnson Quotes

To be young was very heaven!

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

Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.

Youth is the only thing worth having.

I suppose it is a gift, being young, but it isn't special. We've all got it, early in life.

Being young is wonderful. But one of the secrets of being a human individual - a mature human individual shall we put it rather grandly - is that you can see this desire in perspective.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.

All the same don't forget that you're young — blessedly young; be glad of it on the contrary and live up to it. Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.

If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

Only to youth will spring be spring.

Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.

Youth is a question of energy.

Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

To be young is the only religion.

You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.

...youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so much as being like one of these malenky toys you viddy being sold in the streets, like little chellovecks made out of tin and with a spring inside and then a winding handle on the outside and you wind it up grrr grrr grrr and off it itties, like walking, O my brothers. But it itties in a straight line and bangs straight into things bang bang and it cannot help what it is doing. Being young is like being like one of these malenky machines.

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.

Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.

Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.

youth is a marvelous garment

There's nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age.

The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!