Quotes

Safe in a ditch he bides, With twenty trenched gashes on his head, The least a death to nature.

William Shakespeare

Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth. [Lat., Teneris, heu, lubrica moribus aetas!]

Claudian (Claudianus)

Life went a-Maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy; When I was young! When I was young?--Ah, woful when!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge