Quotes about youth

"As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present."

Grillparzer, Franz on youth   

"On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise."

Hafiz on youth   

"Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed."

Hartog, Jan De on youth   

"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."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on youth   

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"Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme."

Hill, Aaron on youth   

"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."

Hitopadesa on youth   

"Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent."

Hoffer, Eric on youth   

"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."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on youth   

"Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt."

Hoover, Herbert Clark on youth   

"Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person."

Horace on youth   

"Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has."

Howe, Edgar Watson on youth   

"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."

Johnson, Samuel on youth   

"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."

Johnson, Samuel on youth   

"I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us."

Jones, Howard M. on youth   

"The passions of the young are vices in the old."

Joubert, Joseph on youth   

"Ask the young. They know everything."

Joubert, Joseph on youth   

"The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid."

Jung, Carl on youth   

"Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

Kafka, Franz on youth
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"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."

Keller, Helen on youth   

"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."

Lebowitz, Fran on youth   

"You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough."

Lewis, Joe E. on youth
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"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."

Lewis, Wyndham on youth   

"Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock."

Lindsey, Ben on youth   

"A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick."

Little, Mary on youth   

"The young, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property."

Livingston, Richard W. on youth   

"Youth comes but once in a lifetime."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on youth   

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"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!"

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on youth   

"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!"

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on youth
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"If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon."

Lowell, James Russell on youth   

"Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him..."

Marden, Orison Swett on youth   

"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it."

Maugham, W. Somerset on youth   

"The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth."

Miller, Henry on youth   

"Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day."

Milton, John on youth   

"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."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on youth   

"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."

Moore, Julianne on youth   

"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."

Muggeridge, Malcolm on youth   

"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."

Orwell, George on youth   

"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."

Phean, Luella F. on youth
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"Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place."

Picabia, Francis on youth   

"Youth has no age."

Picasso, Pablo on youth
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