Youth Quotes

The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

George Orwell

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Jos

It was remarked to me by the late Mr. Charles Roupell . . . that to play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth.

Herbert Spencer, In Life and Let

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

Sir John Denham

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.

Ann Richards

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

Alfred North Whitehead

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

John Erskine

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

James Barrie

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.

Henry David Thoreau

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Henri Estienne

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Franz Grillparzer

No man knows he is young while he is young.

G. K. Chesterton

The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will hear it, a patient listener is necessary to the accommodation of all those who desire to be confirmed in the opinion of their own wisdom: a patient listener, however, is not always to be had; the present age, whatever age is present, is so vitiated and disordered, that young people are readier to talk than to attend, and good counsel is only thrown away upon those who are full of their own perfections.

Samuel Johnson, July 21, 1753

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

W. Somerset Maugham

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Edward George BulwerLytton

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

Meister Eckhart

Keep flax from fire, youth from gaming

Benjamin Franklin

Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.

Paul Geraldy