Youth Quotes

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

Edward W. Howe

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

Jan De Hartog

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.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Natalie Clifford Barney

So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

Woodrow Wilson

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.

Percy Wynham Lewis

Youth should be a savings bank.

Madame Swetchine

The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Quentin Crisp

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

Source Unknown

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

Source Unknown

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

Source Unknown

Childhood is a disease -- a sickness that you grow out of.

William Golding

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.'

Heinrich Suso

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

Virginia Woolf

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

Proverb

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb

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

Anita Brookner

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.

Wallace Stevens