Quotes about youth

"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   

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

Pritchett, V. S. on youth   

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

Proverb, French on youth   

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

Proverb, French on youth   

"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   

"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."

Richards, Ann on youth   

"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   

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on youth   

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

Seneca on youth   

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

Shakespeare, William on youth   

"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   

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

Shaw, George Bernard on youth   

"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   

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

Shaw, George Bernard on youth   

"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   

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall on youth   

"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   

"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."

Stevens, Wallace on youth   

"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 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."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on youth
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"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.'"

Suso, Heinrich on youth   

"Youth should be a savings bank."

Swetchine, Anne Sophie on youth   

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa on youth   

"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   

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

Twain, Mark on youth   

"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   

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

Unknown, Source on youth   

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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   

"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   

"Youth has become a class."

Vadim, Roger on youth   

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

Wade, H. V. on youth   

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

Waugh, Evelyn on youth   

"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   

"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   

"Those whom the gods love grow young."

Wilde, Oscar on youth   

"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