What is young?

Famous quotes containing the word young:

    “There goes a saying, and ‘twas shrewdly said,
    Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, after all, everybody’s wish.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    ““How old is she, Billy boy, Billy boy?
    How old is she, charming Billy?”
    Past six, past seven,
    Past twenty and eleven,
    She’s a young thing, and cannot leave her mother.””
    —Unknown. Billy Boy (l. 21–25)