Quotes about youth




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"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."

Priestley, J. B. on youth    Share


"Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere."

Pritchett, V. S. on youth    Share

"Youth lives on hope, old age on memories."

Proverb, French on youth    Share

"If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength."

Proverb, French on youth    Share

"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."

Raleigh, Sir Walter on youth
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"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."

Rexroth, Kenneth on youth    Share

"Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life."

Rimbaud, Arthur on youth
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"The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened."

Saki on youth    Share

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"Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on youth    Share

"It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence."

Seneca on youth    Share

"A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age."

Shakespeare, William on youth    Share

"Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?"

Shakespeare, William on youth    Share

"Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing."

Shaw, George Bernard on youth    Share

"It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date."

Shaw, George Bernard on youth    Share

"Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes."

Shaw, George Bernard on youth    Share

"Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."

Shaw, George Bernard on youth
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"The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on youth    Share

"Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on youth    Share

"Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on youth    Share

"For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!"

Stevenson, Robert Louis on youth
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"Youth should be a savings bank."

Swetchine, Anne Sophie on youth    Share

"Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight"

Takuboku, Ishikawa on youth    Share

"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."

Thoreau, Henry David on youth    Share

"It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise."

Twain, Mark on youth    Share

"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."

Ullman, Samuel on youth    Share

"Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness."

Unknown, Source on youth    Share

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"After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others."

Unknown, Source on youth    Share

"The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing."

Unknown, Source on youth    Share

"Youth has become a class."

Vadim, Roger on youth    Share

"Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father."

Wade, H. V. on youth    Share

"What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen."

Waugh, Evelyn on youth    Share

"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."

White, Elwyn Brooks on youth    Share

"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy."

Whitehead, Alfred North on youth
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"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?"

Whitman, Walt on youth    Share

"Those whom the gods love grow young."

Wilde, Oscar on youth    Share

"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience."

Wilde, Oscar on youth    Share

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