Youth Quotes

Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?

Thomas Traherne

Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect.

Cassandra Clare

One of the few things my father says when he's had a few that I agree with is that kids don't have much balls in this generation. Some of them are trying to start the revolution by bombing U.S. government washrooms, but none of them are throwing Molotov cocktails at the Pentagon.

Stephen King

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

Anthony Hope Hawkins

Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives...The Young Man Who Was. Let us drink to his dreams, for they were rainbow-colored; to his appetites, for they were strong; to his blunders, for they were huge; to his pains for they were sharp; to his time for it was brief; and to his end, for it was to become one of us.

Herman Wouk, Aurora Dawn 1947

And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know...

Neil Gaiman

The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats. Every month as it wanes bring you nearer to something dreadful. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

Oscar Wilde

On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.

Hafiz

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Aaron Hill

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

C.S. Lewis

Youth is wasted on the young.

George Bernard Shaw

I'm trying very hard to understand this generation. They have adjusted the timetable for childbearing so that menopause and teaching a sixteen-year-old how to drive a car will occur in the same week.

Erma Bombeck

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

They Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

Marcel Proust

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Carl Gustav Jung

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

H. V. Wade

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

John Milton