Alas Quote by Claudius Claudianus Download Open image “Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth.” — Claudius Claudianus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alas Funny Inspirational Love Nature Slippery Youth
The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is due to… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them. — Friedrich Ruckert Copy Share Image
Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God! — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Youth is beautiful; its friendship is precious; the intercourse with it is a purifying release from the worn and stained harness of older life. — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
Men live best upon a little; Nature has given to all the privilege of being happy, if they but knew how to use their… — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position. — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall. — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us. — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor. — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path. — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children. — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound… — Francis Pharcellus Church Copy Share Image
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. — Horace Copy Share Image
Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
