youthful companionship Quotes

Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.

Even when I was a child, my best friend was a 92-year-old woman.

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.

It's Faster horses, Younger women, Older whiskey and More money.

With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.

I came to the place of my birth and cried: "The friends of my youth, where are they?"--and an echo answered, "Where are they?

Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.

The friendship of fine-hearted, generous boys, nurtured amid the romance-engendering comforts and elegancies of life, sometimes transcends the bounds of mere boyishness, and revels for a while in the empyrean of a love which only comes short, by one degree, of the sweetest sentiment entertained between the sexes.

In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.

You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.