Quotes about youth

"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."

Aiken, Conrad on youth
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"The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication."

Aristotle on youth
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"They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else."

Aristotle on youth
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"I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own."

Atwood, Margaret on youth
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"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."

Bacon, Francis on youth
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"Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth."

Barney, Natalie Clifford on youth
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"I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg."

Barrie, Sir James M. on youth
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"Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did."

Benchley, Robert on youth
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"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]"

Bible on youth
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"It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. [Lamentations 3:27]"

Bible on youth   

"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."

Billings, Josh on youth   

"Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has."

Brookner, Anita on youth
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"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."

Browning, Robert on youth
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"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation."

Buck, Pearl S. on youth
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"Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on youth   

"There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate."

Bumper Sticker on youth
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"The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth."

Burke, Edmund on youth   

"Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes."

Carlyle, Thomas on youth   

"Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough."

Chesterfield, Lord on youth   

"No man knows he is young while he is young."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on youth
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"A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body."

Cicero, Marcus T. on youth   

"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."

Cicero, Marcus T. on youth   

"Youth is a period of missed opportunities."

Connolly, Cyril on youth
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"I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself."

Conrad, Joseph on youth
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"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."

Crisp, Quentin on youth
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"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."

Decter, Midge on youth
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"Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know."

Denham, Sir John on youth   

"A boy's story is the best that is ever told."

Dickens, Charles on youth
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"The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity."

Disraeli, Benjamin on youth   

"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."

Disraeli, Benjamin on youth   

"Youth is the trustee of prosperity."

Disraeli, Benjamin on youth   

"The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning."

Eliot, T. S. on youth
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"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."

Erskine, John on youth   

"If youth but knew; if age but could."

Estienne, Henri on youth   

"Youth holds no society with grief."

Euripides on youth   

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"Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor."

Euripides on youth
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"Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y on youth   

"Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love."

Geraldy, Paul on youth
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"Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day."

Gilmore, Dame Mary on youth   

"Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on youth