“Youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.”
“Hope deceives more men than cunning does.”
L'espérance fait plus de dupes que l'habileté.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Are these signs of hope, or do we deceive ourselves by wishing them to be?”
Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book V : The High King (1968), Chapter 15 (Taran)
“Hope lies to mortals
And most believe her,
But man's deceiver
Was never mine.”
No. 6, st. 1.
More Poems http://www.kalliope.org/vaerktoc.pl?vid=housman/1936 (1936)
“And could'st thou hope, perfidious, to deceive
Me thus? and secretly our Kingdom leave?”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
“Truly, we are dust and shadow; truly, desire is blind and greedy; truly, hope deceives.”
Veramente siam noi polvere et ombra,
veramente la voglia cieca e 'ngorda,
veramente fallace è la speranza.
Canzone 294, st. 4
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Death
“Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.”
Source: Voice of the Gods
“The heart less bounding at emotion new,
And hope, once crush’d, less quick to spring again.”
St. 14
Thyrsis (1866)
Context: Yes, thou art gone! and round me too the night
In ever-nearing circle weaves her shade.
I see her veil draw soft across the day,
I feel her slowly chilling breath invade
The cheek grown thin, the brown hair sprent with grey;
I feel her finger light
Laid pausefully upon life’s headlong train; —
The foot less prompt to meet the morning dew,
The heart less bounding at emotion new,
And hope, once crush’d, less quick to spring again.
“Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.”
Source: Crossing to Safety
