Youth Quotes
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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. (Quote by - Robert Southey)
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves. (Quote by - Marcelene Cox)
In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation. (Quote by - Roger Allen)
The best way to make children good is to make them happy. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
If a child annoys you, quiet him by brushing his hair. If this doesn't work, use the other side of the brush on the other end of the child. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers. (Quote by - Beatrix Campbell)
If youth but knew; if age but could. (Quote by - Henri Estienne)
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. (Quote by - Jacqueline Bisset)
Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner. (Quote by - Ben Bergor)
Things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys. (Quote by - Paul Fussell)
Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
A boy's story is the best that is ever told. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. (Quote by - Margaret Atwood)
If youth only knew: if age only could. (Quote by - Henri Estienne)
It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Youth is the trustee of prosperity. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one. (Quote by - George Borrow)
The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life. (Quote by - Woodrow T Wilson)
Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept. (Quote by - Jean Cocteau)
You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way. (Quote by - Barbara Bush)
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. (Quote by - Beverly Sills)
It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children. (Quote by - Ama Ata Aidoo)
The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three. (Quote by - Julianne Moore)
A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick. (Quote by - Mary Little)
Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two. (Quote by - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer)
Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes. (Quote by - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
I like trying [to get pregnant]. I'm not so sure about childbirth. (Quote by - Lauren Holly)
The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children. (Quote by - Midge Decter)
Reckless youth makes rueful age. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Youth is like spring, an overpraised season. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone, That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. (Quote by - William Cowper)
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be. (Quote by - Cesare Pavese)
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc. (Quote by - Anne Frank)
Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance. (Quote by - French Proverb)
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow; Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years. (Quote by - Charlotte Bronte)
It takes a long time to become young. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. (Quote by - Franz Kafka)
Youth holds no society with grief. (Quote by - Euripides)
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.". (Quote by - Jerome K Jerome)
Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. (Quote by - Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)
We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity.... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me. (Quote by - Meister Eckhart)
Yes, you may depend upon it he has the ability! He is the younger generation that stands ready to knock at my door (Quote by - to make an end of Halvard Solness. (Quote by - Henrik Ibsen)
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
I'm excited about what I have to offer. Not only a little bit of youth, but a different perspective as a woman. (Quote by - Lisa Murkowski)
It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
To some baffled parents youth is stranger than fiction. (Quote by - Unknown)
Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young And always keep us so. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell. (Quote by - Louise Bogan)
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. (Quote by - Seneca)
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. (Quote by - Bill Vaughn)
Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon. (Quote by - Unknown)
The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred. (Quote by - Cicero)
After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father. (Quote by - H. V. Wade)
Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)
For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft. (Quote by - Thomas J Cottle)
Praise youth and it will prosper. (Quote by - Irish Proverb)
No man knows he is young while he is young. (Quote by - Gilbert K Chesterton)
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life. (Quote by - Carolyn Wells )
The child is father of the man. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going. (Quote by - John B. Priestly)
I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more (Quote by - the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men. (Quote by - Joseph Conrad)
How beautiful is youth, that is always slipping away! Whoever wants to be happy, let him be so: of tomorrow there's no knowing. (Quote by - Lorenzo De' Medici)
Our children's children will hear a good story. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season of credulity. (Quote by - William Pitt)
Age is deformed, youth unkind, We scorn their bodies, they our mind Chrestoleros. (Quote by - Thomas Barnard)
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born. (Quote by - James Augustine)
To play billiards well is a sign of an ill-spent youth. (Quote by - Charles Roupell)
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. (Quote by - Deepak Chopra)
I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it. (Quote by - Henri Matisse)
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)
He who wants to warm himself in old age must build a fireplace in his youth. (Quote by - German Proverb)
It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Young fellows will be young fellows. (Quote by - Isaac Bickerstaff)
Time - our youth - it never really goes, does it? It is all in our minds. (Quote by - Helen Hoover Santmyer)
Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has. (Quote by - Anita Brookner)
I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development. (Quote by - Alice Roosevelt Longworth)
Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest! (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do. (Quote by - Simone De Beauvoir)
Youth is wasted on the young. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself! (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
It is a wise child that knows his own father. (Quote by - Homer)
Oh, to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small, and only half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am. (Quote by - Rebecca Richards)
The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning. (Quote by - T. S. Eliot)
The young, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property. (Quote by - Richard W. Livingston)
Untaught the noble end of glorious truth, Bred to deceive even from their earliest youth (Quote by - Anne Ingram)
Every child is born a genius. (Quote by - Libby Gelman Waxner)
The 'teenager' seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding. (Quote by - Edgar Z. Friedenberg)
If youth did not matter so much to itself it would never have the heart to go on. (Quote by - Willa Sibert Cather)
The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid. (Quote by - Carl Gustav Jung)
Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth. (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. (Quote by - Anne Bradstreet )
Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children. (Quote by - Richard H Dana)
Youth is the best time to be rich; and the best time to be poor. (Quote by - Euripides)
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected. (Quote by - Miriam Robbins)
A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body. (Quote by - Marcus T. Cicero)
On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. (Quote by - Hafiz)
I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression and missed the big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose. (Quote by - Ann Richards)
What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn. (Quote by - Henry Brooks Adams)
Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires. (Quote by - Marcelene Cox)
Youth has a small head. (Quote by - Irish Sayings)
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. (Quote by - Saki)
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. (Quote by - Samuel Ullman)
If youth knew; if age could. (Quote by - Henri Estienne )
Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know. (Quote by - Sir John Denham)
Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Youth is truth. (Quote by - James Michener)
The passions of the young are vices in the old. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed. (Quote by - Jan De Hartog)
The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation. (Quote by - Ray L Wilbur)
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Ask the young. They know everything. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; Old age is slow in both. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
One boy's a boy, two boys are half a boy; three boys are no boy at all. (Quote by - Charles A. Lindbergh)
No wise man ever wished to be younger. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. (Quote by - Marcus T Cicero)
Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes; they turn, Like marigolds, toward the sunny side. (Quote by - Jean Ingelow)
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life. (Quote by - Arthur Rimbaud)
Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
Youth condemns; maturity condones (Quote by - Amy Lowell)
The only moral lesson which is suited for a child, the most important lesson for every time of life, is this: "Never hurt anybody.". (Quote by - Denis Breeze)
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. (Quote by - James M. Barrie)
As long as you can still be dissapointed, you are still young. -Sarah Churchill. (Quote by - Sarah Churchill)
It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth. (Quote by - Vincent van Gogh)
Prolifers support warwaging candidates whose bomber planes become partial birth abortionists. (Quote by - O Anna Niemus)
Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep; It hears a voice within it tell: Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well. 'Tis all perhaps which man acquires, But 'tis not what our youth desires. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
Those whom the gods love grow young. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. (Quote by - Graham)
Youth has become a class. (Quote by - Roger Vadim)
Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. (Quote by - Marshall McLuhan)
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth. (Quote by - J. K. Rowling)
Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you. (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want. (Quote by - Moliere)
In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.' (Quote by - Heinrich Suso)
Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity. (Quote by - Christian Nevell Bovee)
Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth. (Quote by - Isaac Barrow)
Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day. (Quote by - Dame Mary Gilmore)
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other? to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life. (Quote by - John Bradshaw)
Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them. (Quote by - Frank A Clark)
Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope. (Quote by - Aristotle)
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth. (Quote by - Sara Teasdale)
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. [Ecclesiastes 11:9] (Quote by - Bible)
Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds. (Quote by - Wallace Stevens)
I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers, but its nectar never warmed my weary heart. (Quote by - Jon English)
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long. (Quote by - Pope Paul VI)
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. (Quote by - Grit)
Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person. (Quote by - Horace)
Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him. (Quote by - Baudouin I)
There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too. (Quote by - Kenneth Rexroth)
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all!. (Quote by - Washington Irving)
Fame is the thirst of youth. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight (Quote by - Ishikawa Takuboku)
Young folk, silly folk; old folk, cold folk. (Quote by - Old saying)
In youth we learn; in age we understand. (Quote by - Marie Ebner von Eschenbach)
Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity. (Quote by - John Jay Chapman)
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. (Quote by - Aristotle)
The secret of eternal youth is arrested development. (Quote by - Alice Roosevelt Longworth)
Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)
If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become. (Quote by - Andre Gide)
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. (Quote by - Socrates)
Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen. (Quote by - Richard Harris Barham)
Poor in my youth, and in life's later scenes - Rich to no end, I curse my natal hour, Who naught enjoyed while young, denied the means; And naught when old enjoyed, denied the power. (Quote by - Greek proverb)
A young Apollo, golden haired, Stands dreaming on the verge of strife, Magnificently unprepared For the long littleness of life. (Quote by - Frances Macdonald)
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls. (Quote by - Anthony Hope Hawkins)
To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock. (Quote by - Ben Lindsey)
It is dangerous to confuse children with angels. (Quote by - David Fyfe)
It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon. (Quote by - Peter Ustinov)
Ah sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth; and none, or almost none, for the disenchantments of age. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released. -Robert Penn Warren. (Quote by - Robert Penn Warren)
An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age. (Quote by - Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus)
Youth lives on hope, old age on memories. (Quote by - French Proverb)
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. (Quote by - Mary Alice Messenger)
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did. (Quote by - Horace Benchley)
Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof. (Quote by - Sir Walter Raleigh)
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. (Quote by - Red Buttons)
Behold, I was shapened in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. [Psalms 51:5]. (Quote by - Bible)
Your old men shall dream dreams; your young men shall see visions. (Quote by - Bible)
Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day. (Quote by - John Milton)
How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams With its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend! (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. (Quote by - Herbert Hoover)
Her years Were ripe, they might make six-and-twenty springs; But there are forms which Time to touch forbears. And turns aside his scythe to vulgar things. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly. (Quote by - John Dryden)
The youth gets together this material to build a bridge to the moon, or perchance, a palace or temple on earth, and at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
What though youth gave love and roses Age still leaves us friends and wine. (Quote by - Thomas More)
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. (Quote by - Diogenes Laertius)
There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place. (Quote by - Elwyn Brooks White)
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth. (Quote by - Natalie Clifford Barney)
The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme. (Quote by - Aaron Hill)
There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age. (Quote by - Modern Maturity)
Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined. (Quote by - Hitopadesa)
In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!. (Quote by - Homer)
Whom the gods love, die young, no matter how long they live. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness. (Quote by - Catullus)
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation. (Quote by - Pearl S. Buck)
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence. (Quote by - Benjamin Haydon)
All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by. (Quote by - Conrad Aiken)
And both were young, and one was beautiful. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age. (Quote by - Andre Gide)
The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded upon a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older. (Quote by - William Lyon Phelps)
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. (Quote by - Clarence Darrow)
We've had bad luck with our kids--they've all grown up. (Quote by - Christophermorley)
Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake. (Quote by - Goethe)
So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. (Quote by - Robert Browning)
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
Time, the subtle thief of youth. (Quote by - John Milton)
It is a wise father that knows his own child. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen. (Quote by - Evelyn Waugh)
Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted. (Quote by - Andre Malraux)
They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, We will remember them. (Quote by - Laurence Binyon)
Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty. (Quote by - Christian Nevell Bovee)
In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears. (Quote by - Joseph Roux)
Children are our most valuable natural resource. (Quote by - Herbert Hoover)
The follies of youth become the vices of manhood and the disgrace of old age. (Quote by - Unknown)
What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold. (Quote by - Robert Browning)
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own. (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)
Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them. (Quote by - John Erskine)
Abortion is a skillfully marketed product sold to women at a crisis time in their life. If the product is defective, she can't return it for a refund. (Quote by - Carol Evertt)
I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth. (Quote by - Ben Lindsey)
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it. (Quote by - Coco Chanel)
Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age. (Quote by - Proverb)
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. (Quote by - Fyodor Dostoyevski)
A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake. (Quote by - George Gurdjieff)
Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children. (Quote by - Ed Howe)
Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy! (Quote by - Lord Byron)
It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon. (Quote by - Peter Ustinov)
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]. (Quote by - Bible)
Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love. (Quote by - Paul Geraldy)
Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you. (Quote by - Johann Friedrich Von Schiller)
Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living. (Quote by - Carey Williams)
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. (Quote by - Charles Wadsworth)
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. (Quote by - Herbert Asquith)
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)
In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl'. (Quote by - Tom Lehrer)
Children have more need of models than of critics. (Quote by - Carolyn Coats)
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. (Quote by - Renata Adler)
When a man of 40 falls in love with a girl of 20, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own. (Quote by - Lenore Coffee)
Youth has no age. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso )
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. (Quote by - Euripides)
It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it. (Quote by - Nelson Rockefeller)
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. (Quote by - Bible)
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. (Quote by - Al Bernstein)
Only the young die good. (Quote by - Oliver Herford)
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life. (Quote by - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu)
If youth but knew, and age were able, Then poverty would be a fable. (Quote by - Proverbs)
That miracle of youth, Mr Christopher Wren. (Quote by - John Evelyn)
A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age. (Quote by - Wyndham Lewis)
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood. (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)
Children are poor men's riches. (Quote by - English Proverb)
Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination? (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life. (Quote by - George Orwell)
I'm not the callow youth of yesteryear. I'm a man of steel, honed on the handle of life. (Quote by - Ken Morley)
Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Youth comes but once in a lifetime. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
The old age of an eagle is better than the youth of a sparrow. (Quote by - Proverb)
The interests of childhood and youth are the interests of mankind. (Quote by - Edmund Storer James)
Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies. (Quote by - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Youth is a period of missed opportunities. (Quote by - Cyril Connolly)
Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts. (Quote by - Jose Ortega Y Gasset)
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish. (Quote by - William James)
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. (Quote by - Dorothy Fulheim)
What I regret about the follies of youth is not having committed them but not being able to do so again. (Quote by - Pierre Benoit )
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. (Quote by - Arthur C Coxe)
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. (Quote by - Nancy Mitford)
There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it. (Quote by - Monta Crane)
It is less painful to learn in youth than to be ignorant in age. (Quote by - Proverb)
Many people use their youth to make their old age miserable. (Quote by - Unknown)
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. (Quote by - J. K. Rowling)
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around. (Quote by - Georges Bernanos)
The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth. (Quote by - Malcolm Muggeridge)
The joy of the young is to disobey (Quote by - but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders. (Quote by - Jean Cocteau)
Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over. (Quote by - Lionel Trilling)
The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. (Quote by - Quentin Crisp)
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change. (Quote by - Alice Meynell)
I am not young enough to know everything. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Youth should be a savings bank. (Quote by - Anne Sophie Swetchine)
Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. (Quote by - George Pope Morris)
The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect. (Quote by - Anne Rice)
She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree. (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)
We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never. (Quote by - Anna Jameson)
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. (Quote by - Herbert Clark Hoover)
Young men think old men fools and old men know young men to be so. (Quote by - Anonymous)
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. (Quote by - Cicero)
Our youth we can have but to-day; We may always find time to grow old. (Quote by - Anthony Berkeley)
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends. (Quote by - Mary McLeod Bethune )
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?. (Quote by - Confucius)
Young people need models, not critics. (Quote by - John Wooden)
Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn. -Tom Savage. (Quote by - Tom Savage)
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young. (Quote by - Luella F Phean)
Youth is wholly experimental. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
In youth, everything seems possible; but we reach a point in the middle years when we realize that we are never going to reach all the shining goals we had set for ourselves, with what grace we can, to living with our ulcers and arthritis, our sense. (Quote by - Adlai E. Stevenson)
Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate. (Quote by - Bumper Sticker)
The soul is healed by being with children. (Quote by - English Proverb)
In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As - fail. (Quote by - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place. (Quote by - Francis Picabia)
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Youth isn't always all it's touted to be. (Quote by - Lawana Blackwell)
My mother loved children--she would have given anything if I had been one. (Quote by - Groucho Marx)
Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes. (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)
There is a place in God's sun for the youth 'farthest down' who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to reach it. (Quote by - Mary McLeod Bethune)
The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing. (Quote by - Anonymous)
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. (Quote by - Madame Marie Curie)
In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. (Quote by - Friedrich von Schiller)
The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it. (Quote by - John Dryden)
Luxury! More perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. (Quote by - Hannah More)
Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark, that you always carry in your heart. (Quote by - Raisa M. Gorbachev)
An aware parent loves all children he or she meets and interacts with - for you are a caretaker for those moments in time. Doc Childre, A Parenting Manual: Heart Hope for the Family -Doc Childre. (Quote by - Doc Childre)
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife. (Quote by - Will Durant)
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. (Quote by - Quentin Crisp)
If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength. (Quote by - French Proverb)
Life went a-Maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy; When I was young! When I was young?--Ah, woful when! (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough. (Quote by - Joe E Lewis)
There is no sinner like a young saint. (Quote by - Aphra Behn)
There is a fountain of youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring in your life and the lives of people you love. (Quote by - Sophia Loren)
I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us. (Quote by - Howard M Jones)
Young people need models, not critics. (Quote by - John Wooden)
Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth. (Quote by - Claudian)
Age considers; youth ventures. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious. (Quote by - P. G. Wodehouse)
We pay when old for the excesses of youth. (Quote by - Joseph Priestley)
What America needs is more young people who will carry to their jobs the same enthusiasm for getting ahead that they display in traffic. -M.A. Kelly. (Quote by - M A Kelly)
It's never too late to have a happy childhood. (Quote by - Jerry Seinfeld)
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. (Quote by - Doris Day)
