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YESTERDAY
YORKSHIRE --- YOSEMITE
YOUNG LOVE --- YOUTH --- ZEAL --- ZOOS

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YESTERDAY

see: "MEMORIES" for related links
see: "TIME" for related links


He seems
To have seen better days, as who has not
Who has seen yesterday?
--Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (1788—1824)
English Romantic poet and satirist.
_Werner_ [1822], act i, sc. i

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is to not stop questioning.
--Albert Einstein (1879—1955)
German-American physicist who developed the
special and general theories of relativity.

Yesterdays,
Yesterdays,
Days I knew as happy sweet sequester'd days.
Olden days,
Golden days,
Days of mad romance and love.
Then gay youth was mine,
Truth was mine,
Joyous, free and flaming life forsooth was mine.
Sad am I,
Glad am I,
For today I'm dreaming of
Yesterdays.
--Otto Harbach (1873—1963)
American lyricist.
"Yesterdays" [1933 song], music by Jerome Kern.

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh I believe in Yesterday.
Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be
There's a shadow growing over me...
--John Lennon (1940—1980) & Paul McCartney (1942— )
English pop singers and songwriters.
"Yesterday" (song)

Oft in the stilly night,
Ere Slumber's chain has bound me,
Fond Memory brings the light
Of other days around me:
The smiles, the tears
Of boyhood's years,
The words of love then spoken;
The eyes that shone,
Now dimm'd and gone,
The cheerful hearts now broken.
Thus, in the stilly night,
Ere Slumber's chain has bound me,
Sad Memory brings the light
Of other days around me.
--Thomas Moore (1779—1852)
Irish poet, satirist, composer, and musician.
_National Airs_ [1815]
"Oft in the Stilly Night" st. 1

We crucify ourselves between two thieves:
regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.
--Fulton Oursler (1893—1952)
American writer and editor.
Attributed in "Liguorian", vol. 54 [1966].



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YORKSHIRE

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see: "NATURE" for related links
see: "PLACES" for related links


My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way,
that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.
--Sydney Smith (1771—1845)
English clergyman and essayist,
in 1802 cofounded "The Edinburgh Review."
_Lady Holland's Memoir_ [1855], vol I, ch. 9

I rode over the mountains to Huddersfield. A wilder
people I never saw in England. The men, women
and children filled the streets and seemed just
ready to devour us.
--John Wesley (1703—1791)
English preacher and founder, with his brother Charles,
of the Methodist movement in the Church of England.
[June 1757]



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YOSEMITE

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see: "NATURE" for related links
see: "PLACES" for related links


That first full gaze up the opposite height [of El Capitan]!
Can I ever forget it? The valley is here scarcely half a mile
wide, while its northern wall of mainly naked, perpendicular
granite is a least four thousand feet high—probably more.
But the modicum of moonlight that fell into this awful gorge
gave to that precipice a vagueness of outline, an indefinite
vastness, a ghostly or weird spirituality. Had the mountain
spoken to me in audible voice, or begun to lean over with
the purpose of burying me beneath its crushing mass, I
should hardly have been surprised.
--Horace Greeley (1811—1872)
American newspaper editor.
_An Overland Journey from New York
to San Francisco...in 1859_, [1860]



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YOUNG LOVE

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see: "LOVE & MARRIAGE (OR NOT)" for related links


Alas! our young affections run to waste,
Or water but the desert.
--Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (1788—1824)
English Romantic poet and satirist.
_Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_, canto IV, CXX [1812—1818]

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
--Benjamin Disraeli (1804—1881)
British Tory statesman, novelist, and Prime Minister [1868, 1874—1880].
_Henrietta Temple_ [1837]

Young love-making — that gossamer web! Even the
points it clings to — the things whence its subtle
interlacings are swung — are scarcely perceptible:
momentary touches of finger-tips, meetings of rays
from blue and dark orbs, unfinished phrases, lightest
changes of cheek and lip, faintest tremors. The web
itself is made of spontaneous beliefs and indefinable
joys, yearnings of one life towards another, visions
of completeness, indefinite trust.
--George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819—1880)
English novelist.
_Middlemarch_ [1871-72]

There is nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dreams.
--Thomas Moore (1779—1852)
Irish poet, satirist, composer, and musician.
_Irish Melodies_ "Love's Young Dream" [1807]



YOUTH

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see: "ENERGY"
see: "ENTHUSIASM"
see: "HOPE"
see: "IDEALS"
see: "IMMATURITY"
see: "INNOCENCE"
see: "AGE" for other related links
see: "HOME & FAMILY" for other related links


Young men have a passion for regarding
their elders as senile.
--Henry Brooks Adams (1838—1918)
American historian & man of letters.
_The Education of Henry Adams_ [1907]

Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope.
--Aristotle (384—322 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.
_The Art of Rhetoric_ [c. 350 B.C.]

One thing only has been lent to youth and age
in common — discontent.
--Matthew Arnold (1822—1888)
English Victorian poet and literary and social critic.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly,
eat slowly, and lie about your age.
--Lucille Ball (1911—1989)
American actress, producer, and star of "I Love Lucy."

I'm not young enough to know everything.
--Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860—1937)
Scottish writer and dramatist.
_The Admirable Crichton_, act 1, [performed 1902, published 1914].

Childhood, n. The period of human life intermediate
between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth
— two removes from the sin of manhood and three
from the remorse of age.
--Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914)
American newspaperman, wit, and satirist.
_The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906]
(Retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_.)

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Youth is the only season for enjoyment, and the first twenty-five years
of one's life are worth all the rest of the longest life of man, even though
those five-and-twenty be spent in penury and contempt, and the rest in
the possession of wealth, honors, respectability.
--George (Henry) Borrow (1803—1881)
English traveler, linguist, and prose writer.
_The Romany Rye_ [1857], ch. 30


Youth will be served, every dog has his
day, and mine has been a fine one.
--George (Henry) Borrow (1803—1881)
English traveler, linguist, and prose writer.
_Lavengro_ [1851], ch. 92

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In sorrow he learned this truth:
Though one may return
To the place of his birth,
He cannot go back to his youth.
--John Burroughs (1837—1921)
American naturalist and writer.
_The Return_

Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable
celestial barrier, and the sacred air-cities of Hope have not shrunk
into the mean clay-hamlets of Reality; and man, by his nature, is
yet infinite and free.
--Thomas Carlyle (1795—1881)
Scottish historian and political philosopher.
_Sartor Resartus_, bk. II, ch. V [1831]

The dead might as well try to speak to
the living as the old to the young.
--Willa Silbert Cather (1873—1947)
American novelist.
_One of Ours_, bk. II, ch. v [1922]

Young men think old men are fools; but
old men know young men are fools.
--George Chapman (c. 1559—1634)
English playwright.
_All Fools_, act 5, sc. 1 [1605]

I believe what really happens in history is this: the old
man is always wrong; and the young people are always
wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form
it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by
some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it
with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.
--G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (1874—1936)
English essayist, novelist, and poet.
"Illustrated London News"

A sensual and intemperate youth hands
over a worn-out body to old age.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106—43 BC)
Roman orator and statesman.
_De senectute_ (On Old Age), IX [45-44 BC]

[Upon being told his son had joined the Communist Party:]
My son is 22 years old. If he had not become a Communist
at 22, I would have disowned him. If he is *still* a
Communist at 30, I will do it then.
--Georges Clemenceau (1841—1929)
French statesman.
Attributed in Bennett Cerf _Try and Stop Me_ [1944].

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty,
it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.
--Lenore Coffee (1897—1984)
American screenwriter.
_Storyline; Recollections of a Hollywood Screenwriter_ [1973]

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When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust
others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth,
timid caution of age.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, CCCLXIII [1820]


The excesses of our youth, are drafts upon our old age,
payable with interest, about thirty years after date.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, LXXVI [1820]

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Always be nice to those younger than you, because
they are the ones who will be writing about you.
--attributed to Cyril Connolly (1903—1974)
English writer.

I remember my youth and the feeling that will
never come back any more — the feeling that
I could last forever, 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,
grow cold, grows small and expires — and
expires, too soon, too soon — before life
itself.
--Joseph Conrad [Teodor Jσzef Konrad Nalecz-Korzeniowski] (1857—1924)
Polish-born English novelist.
"Youth" [1898 autobiographical short story]

The young always have the same
problem — how to rebel and conform
at the same time. They have now
solved this by defying their
parents and copying one another.
--Quentin Crisp [Denis Pratt] (1908—1999)
English writer.
_The Naked Civil Servant_, ch. 19 [1968]

You can stay young as long as you learn.
--attributed to Emily Dickinson (1830—1886)
American poet.

It is often said that New York is a city for only the
very rich and the very poor. It is less often said
that New York is also, at least for those of us who
came there from somewhere else, a city only for
the very young.
--Joan Didion (b. 1934)
American journalist and novelist.
"Farewell to the Enchanted City" first pub.
1967 in _The Saturday Evening Post_.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
--Dionysius of Halicarnassus (1st century B.C.)
Greek historian and literary critic.
Attributed in "The Albany Law Journal" [25 February 1899].

Youth is a blunder; manhood, a struggle; old age, a regret.
--Benjamin Disraeli (1804—1881)
British Tory statesman, novelist, and Prime Minister [1868, 1874-1880].
_Coningsby: Or, The New Generation_ [1844]

If youth is the season of hope, it is only so in the sense
that our elders are hopeful about us, for no age is so apt
as youth to think its emotions, partings and resolves are
the least of their kind. Each new crisis seems the final,
simply because it is new.
--George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819—1880)
English novelist.
_Middlemarch_ [1871-1872]

What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures
up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result
of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
Quoted in James Comper Gray
_The Biblical Museum: Old Testament_, p. 160 [1876].

Youth is the best time to be rich,
and the best time to be poor.
--attributed to Euripides (485?—406 B.C.)
Greek dramatist.

When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find
it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
--Sam Ewing (1920—2001)
American writer and humorist.
Quoted in "Reader's Digest" [April 1992].

The appeal of baseball is intimately wrapped up with
one's youth. Baseball is very much about being
young again in a harmless way. And one of its core
appeals is to remind America of a time when it was
young. You fly over a major city at night in the
summer and suddenly you'll see that green oasis that
reminds everybody of baseball's basic mythology: we
come from a rural, simpler America. What's home?
Home is longing for when you were happy because
you were younger.
--A. Bartlett Giamatti (1938—1989)
President of Yale and Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
Quoted in _Reader's Digest_ vol. 134, p. 43 [1989].

Yesterdays,
Yesterdays,
Days I knew as happy sweet sequester'd days.
Olden days,
Golden days,
Days of mad romance and love.
Then gay youth was mine,
Truth was mine,
Joyous, free and flaming life forsooth was mIne.
Sad am I,
Glad am I,
For today I'm dreaming of
Yesterdays.
--Otto Harbach (1873—1963)
American lyricist.
"Yesterdays" [1933 song]; music by Jerome Kern.

At almost every step in life we meet with young men [...] for
whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, even after
much and careful inquiry, we never happen to hear another
word. [...] Like certain chintzes, calicoes, and ginghams, they
show finely in their first newness, but cannot stand the sun
and rain, and assume a very sober aspect after washing-day.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804—1864)
American novelist and short-story writer.
_The House of the Seven Gables_, ch. XII [1851]

No young man believes he shall ever die.
--John Hazlitt (1767—1837)
English painter.
William Hazlitt (1778—1830) quotes his brother in his
1827 essay "On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth".

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day,
To-morrow will be dying.
--Robert Herrick (1591—1674)
English poet and clergyman.
"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" l. 1 [1648]

The intellectuals and the young, booted and
spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.
--Eric Hoffer (1902—1983)
American longshoreman, philosopher, and author who
received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1982.
_The True Believer: Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements _ [1951]

There is no time like the old time, when
you and I were young.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809—1894)
American physician, poet, and essayist.
"No Time Like the Old Time" [1865]

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Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?

That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.

--A.E. [Alfred Edward] Houseman (1859—1936)
English classical scholar and poet.
"A Shropshire Lad" no, 40, l. 5 [1896]

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Forty is the old age of youth;
fifty is the youth of old age.
--Victor Hugo (1802—1885)
French poet, dramatist, and novelist.
Quoted in S. G. Lathrop
_Fifty Years and Beyond: Or, Gathered Gems for the Aged_, p. 376 [1881].

I was at that age when a man knows least and
is most vain of his knowledge; and when he is
extremely tenacious in defending his opinion
upon subjects about which he knows nothing.
--Washington Irving (1783—1859)
American writer.
"Buckthorne; or, the Young Man of Great Expectations,"
in _Tales of a Traveller_ [1824].

Men grow to the stature to which they
are stretched when they are young.
--Antony Jay (1930— )
English broadcaster and writer.
_Management and Machiavelli: An Inquiry into the Politics of Corporate Life_ [1967]

Let us sing of the days that are gone, Maggie,
When you and I were young.
--George Washington Johnson (1838—1917)
Canadian teacher and poet.
"When You and I Were Young, Maggie" [1866]
(Music by James Austin Butterfield.)

Every old man complains of the growing depravity
of the world, of the petulance and insolence of
the rising generation. He recounts the decency
and regularity of former times, and celebrates
the discipline and sobriety of the age in which
his youth was passed; a happy age which is now
no more to be expected, since confusion has
broken in upon the world, and thrown down all
the boundaries of civility and reverence.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
In Rambler #50 (English journal).

Most men make use of the first part of their life
to render the last part miserable.
--Jean de La Bruyθre (1645—1696)
French essayist and moralist.
_Les Caractθres_ [1688] "De l'Homme"

I have had playmates, I have had companions;
In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days—
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
--Charles Lamb (1775—1834)
English essayist.
_Old Familiar Faces_ [1798]

In my youth ... there were certain words you couldn't say
in front of a girl; now you can say them, but you can't
say 'girl'.
--Tom Lehrer (b. 1928)
American songwriter and satirist.
Quoted in _Washington Post_ [3 January 1982].

Oh, would I were a boy again,
When life seemed formed of sunny years,
And all the heart then knew of pain
Was wept away in transient tears!
When every tale Hope whispered then,
My fancy deemed was only truth.
Oh, would that I could know again,
The happy visions of my youth.
--Mark Lemon (1809—1870)
English playright, author, and lyricist.
_Oh, Would I Were a Boy Again_

[Concerning a group of friends in their late teens:]
The future held little interest for us back then. [. . . ] We were
arrogant enough to ignore the future. And young enough to
be certain that the present was something that would never
change.
--Barry Levinson (1942—)
American screenwriter and film director.
_Sixty-Six_, ch. 2 [2003]

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!
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882)
American poet.
"Morituri Salutamus" [1875]

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In the central place of every heart there is
a recording chamber; so long as it receives
messages of beauty, hope, cheer, and
courage, so long are you young. When the
wires are all down and your heart is covered
with the snows of pessimism and the ice of
cynicism, and then only, are you grown old.

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of
years. People grow old by deserting their ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest
wrinkles the soul. . . . You are as young as your
faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your
self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young
as your hope, as old as your despair.

--Douglas MacArthur (1880—1964)
American general.
"War Is No Longer a Medium of Practical Settlement of
International Differences" address at an American Legion
dinner at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, CA [26 January 1955].

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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, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of
the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity
of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often
exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty. Nobody
grows old merely by a number of years.

We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the
soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit
back to dust.

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart
the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's
next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your
heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it
receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power
from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows
of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even
at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves
of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

--Samuel Ullman (1840—1924)
American businessman and poet.
"Youth", after 1910

& note:

These words, written by Samuel Ullman of Birmingham, Alabama at the
age of 70-plus, are credited with inspiring a generation of Japanese
citizens, businessmen, and government leaders who were faced with
rebuilding their country after World War II. Ullman died in his chosen
hometown in 1924 at the age of 84 never knowing that his poetic
essay would be quoted by politicians and generals, appear in Dear
Abby and Ann Landers columns, and be read and loved by people
all across the world. [...] In his seventies, Ullman wrote the poetic
essay, "Youth," which became a favorite of General Douglas MacArthur.
MacArthur placed a version of the poem on the wall of his office in
Tokyo when he became Supreme Allied Commander in Japan, and he
often quoted from the poem in his speeches. General MacArthur's
influence gave the poem popularity throughout Japan and provided
the people of that nation with spiritual energy to pursue rebuilding
their own lives and that of their nation.
--http://www.alabamamoments.state.al.us/sec31det.html

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It is thinking about themselves that is really
the curse of the younger generation — they
appear to have no other subject which
interests them at all.
--Harold MacMillan (1894—1986)
British Conservative statesman, Prime Minister [1957—1963].
In D.R. Thorpe _Alec Douglas-Home_ [1996].

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving
at driver's license age than at voting age.
--H. (Herbert) Marshall McLuhan (1911—1980)
Canadian professor and author.
_Understanding Media_ [1964]

Oft in the stilly night,
Ere Slumber's chain has bound me,
Fond Memory brings the light
Of other days around me:
The smiles, the tears
Of boyhood's years,
The words of love then spoken;
The eyes that shone,
Now dimm'd and gone,
The cheerful hearts now broken.
Thus, in the stilly night,
Ere Slumber's chain has bound me,
Sad Memory brings the light
Of other days around me.
--Thomas Moore (1779—1852)
Irish poet, satirist, composer, and musician.
_National Airs_ [1815] "Oft in the Stilly Night" st. 1

We will find in the lives of men who have done anything,
of those whom we call great men, that it is this spirit of
adventure, the call of the unknown, that has lured and
urged them along on their course ... All of us are explorers
in life, whatever trail we follow ... It is the explorers with
the true spirit of adventure we now need if humanity
shall really overcome the present difficulties ... Ah, youth.
What a glorious word! Unknown realms ahead of you,
hidden behind the mists of the morning. As you move
on, new islands appear, mountain summits shoot up
through the peering mists, one behind another, waiting
for you to climb; dense new forests unfold for you to
explore, free boundless plains for you to traverse.
--Fridtjof Nansen (1861—1930)
Norwegian polar explorer.
Speech on being installed as Rector of the
University of Aberdeen [November 1926];
in Nigel Rees _Brewer's Famous Quotations_ [2006].

Youth has no age.
--Pablo Picasso (1881—1973)
Spanish painter and sculptor.
Quoted in Patrick O'Brian _Picasso: Pablo Ruiz Picasso : A Biography_ [1976].

You are young, my son, and, as the years
go by, time will change and even reverse
many of your present opinions. Refrain
therefore awhile from the setting yourself
up as a judge of the highest matters.
--Plato (427?—347 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.
_Laws_ #888

Young men think old men fools, and
old men know young men to be so.
--Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden (1714—1794)
English jurist.
Attributed by Pratt to a "Dr. Metcalf".

Being young is greatly overestimated. . . . Any
failure seems so total. Later on you realize you
can have another go.
--Mary Quant (b. 1934)
English fashion designer.
In "Observer" [5 May 1996].

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The lightning bugs are back. They fly low to the
ground as the lawn dissolves from green to black
in the dusk. Seeing them, I can reconstruct a
childhood: a hot night under tall trees; the Good
Humor man, in his square white truck, the freezer
smoky when he reaches inside for an ice cream.

The lightning bugs trapped in empty jars with holes
on top. 'Let them out,' our mother said, 'or they
will die in there.' We were careless. We always
forgot to open the jars. The bugs would be there
in the morning, their yellow tails dim in the white
light of the summer sun, pathetic as they lay on
their backs. We were always horrified by what we
had done. As night fell we shook them out and
caught more.

I relive the magic of the yellow light without the
bright white of hindsight. The little flares in
the darkness, a distillation of the kind of life
we think we had, we wish we had, we want
again.

--Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
American writer.
"Reader's Digest" [1991]

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Once upon a time there was a tavern
Where we used to raise a glass or two
Remember how we laughed away the hours
And dreamed of all the great things we would do

Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way.

Then the busy years went rushing by us
We lost our starry notions on the way
If by chance I'd see you in the tavern
We'd smile at one another and we'd say

[Repeat Refrain]

Just tonight I stood before the tavern
Nothing seemed the way it used to be
In the glass I saw a strange reflection
Was that lonely woman really me

[Repeat Refrain]

Through the door there came familiar laughter
I saw your face and heard you call my name
Oh my friend we're older but no wiser
For in our hearts the dreams are still the same

[Repeat Refrain]

"Those Were The Days"
Music and lyrics by Gene Raskin (1910—2004)
[mid-1960s song based on a Russian folk tune and
sung by Mary Hopkin.]

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Das Alter wδgt, die Jugend wagt
(Age considers, youth ventures.)
--Ernst Benjamin Salomo Raupach (1784—1852)
German dramatist.
In James Wood _Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern_, p.53 [1893].

I will not make age an issue. . . . I am not going
to exploit for political purposes my opponent's
youth and inexperience.
--Ronald Reagan (1911—2004)
American President [1981—1989] and former Hollywood actor.
(Said at age 73 regarding his 56-year-old opponent, Walter F. Mondale,
during a televised presidential campaign debate [21 October 1984].)

I come back to the cottage in
Santa Monica Canyon where
Andree and I were poor and
Happy together. Sometimes we
Were hungry and stole vegetables
From the neighbors' gardens.
Sometimes we went out and gathered
Cigarette butts by flashlight.
But we went swimming every day,
All year round. We had a dog
Called Proclus, a vast yellow
Mongrel, and a white cat named
Cyprian. We had our first
Joint art show, and they began
To publish my poems in Paris.
We worked under the low umbrella
Of the acacia in the dooryard.
Now I get out of the car
And stand before the house in the dusk.
The acacia blossoms powder the walk
With little pills of gold wool.
The odor is drowsy and thick
In the early evening.
The tree has grown twice as high
As the roof. Inside, an old man
And woman sit in the lamplight.
I go back and drive away
To Malibu Beach and sit
With a gray haired childhood friend and
Watch the full moon rise over the
Long rollers wrinkling the dark bay.
--Kenneth Rexroth (1905—1982)
American poet.
"Only Years"

Death is a distant rumor to the young.
--attributed to Andy Rooney (b. 1919)
American news commentator, producer, and author.

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You can understand and relate to most people better if you
look at them — no matter how old or impressive they may be
— as if they are children.

For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much
— we simply grow taller. Oh, to be sure, we laugh less and
play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but
beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose
needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described
by fairy tales.

--Leo Rosten (1908—1997)
Polish-born American writer and social scientist.

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In youth, one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears.
--Joseph Roux (1834—1886)
French parish priest and writer.
_Meditations of a Parish Priest_; tr. from the
third French edition by Isabel F. Hapgood [1886].

In a dream, you are never eighty.
--Anne Sexton (1928—1974)
American poet who won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
"Old", l. 18 [1962]

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Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:
Youth is full of pleasure, 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 (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_The Passionate Pilgrim_ [1599]


I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty,
or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in
the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the
anciently, stealing, fighting.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_The Winter's Tale_, III, iii [First pub. 1623]


My salad days,
When I was green in judgement.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Antony and Cleopatra_act I, sc. 5, l. 77 [1606—1607]

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Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only
trying on one face after another till he finds his own.
--Logan Pearsall Smith (1865—1946)
American-born man of letters.
_All Trivia: Trivia, More Trivia, Afterthoughts, Last Words_ [1945]


The denunciation of the young is a necessary part
of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists
the circulation of their blood.
--Logan Pearsall Smith (1865—1946)
American-born man of letters.
_Afterthoughts_ [1931] "Age and Death"

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I can remember, with unsteady feet,
Tottering from room to room, and finding pleasure
In flowers, and toys, and sweetmeats, things which long
Have lost their power to please; which when I see them,
Raise only now a melancholy wish—
I were the little trifler once again,
Who could be pleas'd so lightly.
--Robert Southey (1774—1843)
English poet.
"Thalaba the Destroyer", bk. X [1801]

^

Herbert Spencer (1820—1903)
British philosopher and economist.

Spencer was playing billiards with a subaltern
who was a highly proficient player. In a game
of fifty up Spencer gave a miss in balk and
his opponent made a run of fifty and out in
his first inning. The frustrated philosopher
remarked, 'A certain dexterity in games of
skill argues a well-balanced mind, but such
a dexterity as you have shown is evidence,
I fear, of a misspent youth.'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

^

I think today's youth have a tendency to live
in the present and work for the future — and
to be totally ignorant of the past.
--Steven Spielberg (b. 1946)
American film director and producer.
In "Independent" [22 August 1999].

In youth, everything seems possible; but we reach a point in
the middle years when we realize that we are never going to
reach all the shining goals we had set for ourselves. And in
the end, most of us reconcile ourselves, with what grace we
can, to living with our ulcers and arthritis, our sense of
partial failure, our less-than-ideal families—and even
our politicians!
--Adlai E. Stevenson (1900—1965)
American Democratic politician.
_Call to Greatness_ [1954]

Give me the young man who has brains
enough to make a fool of himself.
--Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894)
Scottish essayist, poet, and novelist.
_Virginibus Puerisque_ [1881], ch. II "Crabbed Age and Youth"

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes
you never committed and when you're older you
begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed.
It evens itself out.
--I.F. Stone [Isidor Feinstein] (1907—1989)
American investigative journalist.
"International Herald Tribune" [16 March 1988]; quoted in
Robert Andrews _The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations_, p. 25 [1993].

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 [Sophie Soymanof] (1782—1857)
Russian-born French writer and salon hostess.
In Count de Falloux (ed.), Harriet W. Preston (trans.)
_The Writings of Madame Swetchine_, ch. 2, # CII [1869].

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
--Jonathan Swift (1667—1745)
Anglo-Irish poet and satirist.
Attributed in Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_, p. 269 [1908 ed.].

When I can look at Life with eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise;
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange — my youth.
--Sara Teasdale (1884—1933)
American poet.
Winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1918.
_Dark of the Moon_ [1926], "Wisdom"

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Part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly
remind adults of what they once were themselves,
and of how they felt and thought and talked, and
what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged
in.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
(Preface to the film _The Adventures of Tom Sawyer_ [1938]; screenplay by
John Weaver, produced by David O. Selznick, directed by Norman Taurog.)


Consider well the proportions of things.
It is better to be a young June-bug than
an old bird of paradise.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
"Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" _Pudd'nhead Wilson_ [1894]


When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could
hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be
twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in
seven years.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
--Attributed in _Reader's Digest_ [September 1937].
However, Fred R. Shapiro (ed.) in _The Yale Book of
Quotations_, p. 782 [2006] argues that the quotation
is "obviously spurious because Twain's father died when
the future writer was eleven years old."

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Our ancestors used to wear decent clothes, well-
adapted to the shape of their bodies; they were
skilled horsemen and swift runners, ready for all
seemly undertakings. But in these days the old
customs have almost wholly given way to new fads.
Our wanton youth is sunk in effeminacy, and
courtiers, fawning, seek the favors of women with
every kind of lewdness. ... They sweep the dusty
ground with the unnecessary trains of their robes
and mantles; their long, wide sleeves cover their
hands whatever they do; impeded by these frivolities
they are almost incapable of walking quickly or doing
any kind of useful work ... They curl their hair with hot
irons and cover their heads with a fillet or a cap.
--Orderic Vitalis (1075—c. 1142)
English chronicler and monk.
In M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.}
_History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 219.

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few
years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was
not half so sure of most things as I was before; at
present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God
has revealed to me.
--John Wesley (1703—1791)
English preacher and founder, with his brother Charles,
of the Methodist movement in the Church of England.
"A Letter to the Editor of the 'London Magazine'" [1765]

The old believe everything; the middle-aged
suspect everything; the young know everything.
--Oscar Wilde (1854—1900)
Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet.
_Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young_ [1894]

How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood,
when fond recollection presents them to view!
--Samuel Woodworth (1785—1842)
American journalist, dramatist, and poet.
"The Old Oaken Bucket" [1817]

Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble,
ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives...
The Young Man Who Was.
Let us drink to his dreams, for they were rainbow-colored;
to his appetites, for they were strong;
to his blunders, for they were huge;
to his pains for they were sharp;
to his time for it was brief;
and to his end, for it was to become one of us.
--Herman Wouk (b. 1915)
American novelist.
_Aurora Dawn_ [1947]

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nonage [NON-ij], noun:
1. The time of life before a person becomes legally of age.
2. A period of youth or immaturity.

salad days, noun:
A time of youthful inexperience, innocence, or
indiscretion. Salad days was coined by Shakespeare
in Antony and Cleopatra: "My salad days,/ When I
was green in judgment, cold in blood."

yobbo (noun) ['yah-bo]
(British slang) A rowdy, a ruffian, a hooligan, a
disruptive, annoying young man.




ZEAL

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see: "AMBITION"
see: "ENTHUSIASM"
see: "EXCITEMENT"
see: "FANATICS"
see: "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for other related links


There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in
a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the
good of their country.
--Joseph Addison (1672—1719)
English essayist, poet, and dramatist.
_The Free-Holder_ (Political essays), # 5 [6 January 1716]

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea,
when it's the only one we have.
--Alain (1868—1951) [pseudonym of Ιmile-Auguste Chartier]
French poet and philosopher.

Be always drunken....With wine, with poetry
or with virtue... as you will, but be always
drunken!
--Charles Baudelaire (1821—1867)
French poet and critic.

Experience should teach us to be most on our
guard to protect liberty when the Government's
purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom
are naturally alert to repel invasion of their
liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest
dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment
by men of zeal, well-meaning but without
understanding.
--Louis Brandeis (1856—1941)
American lawyer and associate justice of
the U.S. Supreme Court [1916—1939].

It is very certain the desire of life
Prolongs it.
--Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (1788—1824)
English Romantic poet and satirist.
_Don Juan_ [1819-1824]

You've got to sing like you don't need the money
Love like you'll never get hurt
You've got to dance like nobody's watchin'
It's gotta come from the heart if you want it to work.
--Susanna Clark (fl. 1987)
American songwriter and painter.
"Come from the Heart" [1987 song] Cowritten with Richard Leigh.

Inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
_Society and Solitude_ [1870] "Eloquence"

Too much zeal offends: where indirection works.
--Euripides (485?—406 B.C.)
Greek dramatist.

Zeal without Knowledge is Fire without Light.
--Thomas Fuller (1654—1734)
English writer and physician.
Comp., _Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs_ [1732]

I *will be* as harsh as truth and as uncompromising
as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or
speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man
whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell
him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of
the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate
her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but
urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the
present. [...] I am in earnest—I will not equivocate—
I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch—
AND I will be heard.
--William Lloyd Garrison (1805—1879)
American abolitionist and reformer.
In the first issue of the "Liberator" [1 January 1831].

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether
the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
--Carl Gustav Jung (1875—1961)
Swiss psychologist.
__Erinnerungen, Trδume, Gedanken_ (Memories, Dreams, Reflections), ch. 12. [1963]

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who
are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous
of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn
or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like
fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders
across the stars and in the middle you see the blue
centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"
--Jack Kerouac 1922—1969)
American author and member of the
"Beat Generation."
_On The Road_ [1957], pt. 1, ch. 1

We often excuse our own want of philanthropy
by giving the name of fanaticism to the more
ardent zeal of others.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882)
American poet.

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the
dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our
country and people have become extraordinarily
dogmatic and little-minded.
--Jawaharlal Nehru (1889—1964)
Indian statesman.

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the
absence of fever, then I will never know happiness.
For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge,
experience, and creation.
--Anaοs Nin (1903—1977)
French-born American writer.

In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget
the goal from which they start.
--Friedrich von Schiller (1759—1805)
German poet, historian, and dramatist.
Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Pearls of Thought_, p. 284 [1882].

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet
no one ever come to sit by it. Passers by see only
a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on
the way.
--Vincent van Gogh (1853—1890)
Dutch painter.
_Artists in Quotation_" by Donna Ward La Cour [1989]

Too much zeal creates suspicion.
--George Washington (1732—1799)
American general and commander-in-chief of the
colonial armies in the American Revolution [1775—1783]
and first president of the United States [1789—1797].

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desiccate (verb)
Inflected Form(s): -cat.ed; -cat.ing
transitive senses
1. To dry up.
2. To preserve (a food) by drying.
3. To drain of emotional or intellectual vitality.
intransitive senses: To become dried up.
desiccation: noun
desiccative: adjective
desiccator: noun

zeal [zeel], noun:
Fervor for a person, cause, or object; eager desire
or endeavor; enthusiastic diligence; ardor.



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Photograph: San Diego Zoo

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The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes
from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or
his keeper's brother.
--Evan Esar (1899—1995)
American humorist.
In Connie Robertson
_Book of Humorous Quotations_, p. 62 [1998].

human wandering through the zoo
what do your cousins think of you
--Don Marquis (1878—1937)
American poet and journalist.
_archy and mehitabel_ [1927] "archy at the zoo"

I never go to a menagerie because I cannot endure the sight
of the misery of the captive animals. The exhibiting of
trained animals I abhor. What an amount of suffering and
cruel punishment the poor creatures have to endure in order
to give a few moments' pleasure to men devoid of all thought
and feeling for them!
--Albert Schweitzer (1875—1965)
Franco-German theologian, philosopher, and mission doctor.
_Memories of Childhood and Youth_ [1949]

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Once I went to the zoo,
There to view the old gnu.
But the old gnu was dead,
And the new gnu, they said,
Was too new a new gnu to be viewed.
--anon.

A lion in one of the zoos,
Was recently top of the news,
While in a big rage,
He broke in the next cage,
And that is the end of the gnus.
--anon.

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menagerie [muh-NAJ-uh-ree; -NAZH-], noun:
1. A collection of wild or unusual animals, especially for exhibition.
2. An enclosure where wild or unusual animals are kept or exhibited.
3. A diverse or varied group.


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