A Quote by James Russell Lowell

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

James Russell Lowell

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Defect Only Outgrow Soon Too Youth

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James Russell Lowell
American - Poet
February 22, 1819 - August 12, 1891

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

Robert Lowell

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

John Major

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful carriage and customs. It is not quite sufficient to good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

Henry George

In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth.

Susanna Centlivre

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.

Brian Fitzgerald

I understand that there's a certain energy in youth, no question, in terms of pursuing jobs. But there is wisdom in age. It's too bad that the two can't come together because I do think that people are dropped from what they're really good at too soon.

Rene Russo

The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.

Oliver Goldsmith

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

Jodi Picoult

i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself

F. Scott Fitzgerald

If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It will get away with anything, while age Knows only too well that it has got away with nothing.

W. H. Auden

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort /to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires /and expires, too soon, too soon /before life itself