Youth Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Youth


Youth, like white paper, will take any impression. —Anonymous	1
Youth is like green corn, all sap and promise. —Anonymous	2
The rose, like ready youth, enticing stands, And would be cropt if it might choose the hands. —William Browne	3
Youth like genius gives its best at first. —Charlotte Brontë	4
Youth, like spring-time, light and nimble, Evanescent in its glee. —Hartley Coleridge	5
Youth is not like a new garment which we can keep fresh and fair by wearing sparingly; youth, while we have it, we must wear daily; and it will fast wear away. —John Foster	6
Youth is like those verdant forests tormented by winds: it agitates on every side the abundant gifts of nature, and some profound murmur always reigns in its foliage. —Georges Maurice de Guérin	7
Youth, like the aloe, blossoms but once, and its flower springs from the midst of thorns: but see with what strength and to what height the aloe-flower rises over them. —Walter Savage Landor	8
Blithe youth is like a smile, So mirthful, and so brief. —Robert Nicholl	9
Youth passes like the odour From the white rose’s cup When the hot sun drinks up The dew that overflowed her. —Christina Georgina Rossetti	10
Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather, Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. —William Shakespeare	11