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

Youth

Youth, like white paper, will take any impression.
—Anonymous

Youth is like green corn, all sap and promise.
—Anonymous

The rose, like ready youth, enticing stands,
And would be cropt if it might choose the hands.
—William Browne

Youth like genius gives its best at first.
—Charlotte Brontë

Youth, like spring-time, light and nimble,
Evanescent in its glee.
—Hartley Coleridge

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

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

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

Blithe youth is like a smile,
So mirthful, and so brief.
—Robert Nicholl

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

Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather,
Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.
—William Shakespeare