Youth Quotes

Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.

In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there is something of everything; ...

To love and be loved, that is the miracle of youth

The young need discipline and a full bookcase.

Running in the wind, in the pollen and dust, a flower in flight

For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my you...

Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity an...

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know the...

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know the...

It’s hard not to be impatient with the absurdity of the young; they tell us that two and two make fo...

What ever happened to the passion we all had to improve ourselves, live up to our potential, leave a...

O you youths, Western youths,So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship,Plain ...

I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,Regardless of others, ever regardful of ot...

He seems, in manner and rank, above the class of young men who take that turn; but I remember hearin...

Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the yo...

If ever sorrow and suffering set their profaning marks on the youth and beauty of Miss Fairlie’s fac...

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wi...

She bid me take love easy as the leaves grow on the tree But I being young and foolish with her ...

Ah, we shall never have a real aristocracy while this plebeian reluctance to live upon a parent or a...

What though the radiance which was once so brightBe now for ever taken from my sight,Though nothing ...

Kazu, now that she thought of it, realized that for all her headstrong temperament, she had never lo...

How oddly situated a man is apt to find himself at age thirty-eight! His youth belongs to the distan...

They were smooth and bright, and their timing was wonderful, and they were young and hilarious. It w...

I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the ...

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, ...

When younger, he had been fun-loving to the point of tedium.

Westward on the high-hilled plainsWhere for me the world began, Still, I think, in newer veinsFrets ...

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose,But young men think it is, and we were young.

You wrote something easily in youth, and later you came to see how difficult it all was.

I am firmly convinced to-day that, generally speaking, it is in youth that men lay the essential gro...

And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; ...

You are young still. Naturally, one tries this, that and the other, but what one eventually settles ...

Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no prid...

He felt a strange pang. It was, perhaps, the fault of old Mr Jonathan, speaking of Juliet... No Juli...

There is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable...

Maybe it is because I am an old man, but I find, M. Poirot, that there is something about the defens...

It is the courage, the insistence, the ruthless force of youth.

We do all these things when we are young. The poise, the savoir faire, it comes later.

Who was there to guard youth from pain and death - youth who could not, who had never been able to, ...

And they had no idea that they and many others were automatically pronounced deadly dull solely on t...

Youth is a failing only tooeasily outgrown.

I suppose, like most young people nowadays, boredom is what you dread most in the world, and yet, I ...

In a moment, when I throw myself down among the absinthe plants to bring their scent into my body, I...

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

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

The silence of the storm weighs heavilyOn their strained spirits: sometimes one will saySome trivial...

Wherever they went—Moscow, Tehran, the Syrian coast, Switzerland—a furnished house, villa, or apartm...

We chose younger and younger politicians to lead us because they looked good on television and were ...

We think our fathers fools so wise we grow Our wiser sons no doubt will think us so.

The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they a...

We stand, when we are young, on the sunny slope among the pines, and look across an unknown country ...

Is there a word for when you are young and pretending to have lived and loved a thousand lives? Is t...

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth one's greatest indignation would be f...

When I was younger, I used to make resolutions, which I imagined were virtuous. I was less anxious t...

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I...

'Youth is the time for loving, so poets always say.

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

I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that y...

The curse of having young people about the house was that they were always so redolent of possibilit...

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

. . . you have blighted the promise of youth, and made my life a wilderness!

Who has a right to tell me I have no gift, no talent, no passion ...' he murmured. 'Why do people sa...

She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As re...

Yes yes yes, there it was. Youth must go, ah yes. But youth is only being in a way like it might be ...

Youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so ...

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constr...

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are grow...

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Hence a young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced i...

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?

No one's serious at seventeen,When lindens line the promenades

Once, if my memory serves me well, my life was a banquet where every heart revealed itself, where ev...

From castles of bone unknown music comes But now, that toil rewarded; you, your calculations,––you, ...

In early youth as we contemplate our coming life we are like children in a theatre before the curt...

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only be...

What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it mu...

I cried to think of how lucky we both were to have found each other, since it was clear that we were...

On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a yo...

She is too absorbed in the difficulties of being seventeen to want to hear the confusions of forty-f...

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

Reckless youth makes rueful age.

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

though they know in their adult hearts,even as they threaten to banish Timmy to bedfor his appalling...

He no longer loves the person whom he loved ten years ago. I quite believe it. She is no longer the ...

With few exceptions, the Negro youth must work harder and must perform his tasks even better than a ...

The world should not pass judgement upon the Negro, and especially the Negro youth, too quickly or t...

what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you...

I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t ...

What do you do?' she asks, holding out the vest.'What do you do?''What do you do?' she asks, her voi...

But you don't need anything. You have everything,' I tell him.Rip looks at me. 'No I don't.''What?''...

For at this stage in our youth we can hold two kinds of anticipation of love, which seem contradicto...

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

Youth is like a fickle girlfriend. We can't understand or value her until she goes off with someone ...

A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical cap...

A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical cap...