Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 2092 |
| AUTHOR: | Homer (c. 700 |
| QUOTATION: | Thou know’st the o’er-eager vehemence of youth, How quick in temper, and in judgement weak. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The many translations of these lines of Homer’s vary: The Iliad of Homer, trans. into blank verse by William Cullen Bryant, vol. 4, p. 139 (1905), “Thou dost know The faults to which the young are ever prone; The will is quick to act, the judgment weak”; Robert Graves, The Anger of Achilles, p. 364 (1959), “It is easy for a youngster to go wrong from hastiness and lack of thought”; and Robert Fitzgerald, p. 553, lines 588–89 (1974), “You know a young man may go out of bounds: / his wits are nimble, but his judgment slight.” |
| SUBJECTS: | Youth |