Youth Quotes

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us.

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about it.

Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

There's nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth.

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

Praise youth and it will prosper.

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

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.

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

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

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

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

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

I am not young enough to know everything.

I am not young enough to know everything.

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

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Youth has no age.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

It's easier to build a boy than to mend a man.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

The path to youth takes a whole life.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.