George Crabbe Quotes

youth is a marvelous garment

Youth is the only thing worth having.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.

Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the ecstatic kind, is available to us.

Last year's troubles, They shine up so prettily, They gleam with a lustre they don't have today.

Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.

Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.

The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the passionate histories in the looks and manners of youth and early manhood, and the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,--we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire, and enlarge us.

Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

Youth is a question of energy.

Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring.

you shall above all things be glad and young For if you're young,whatever life you wear it will become you;and if you are glad whatever's living will yourself become.

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

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees

To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.

...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.

Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn.

This dream of our youth will fade out as the splendor Fades from the skies when the sun sinks to sleep.

Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life.

You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain.