Youth Quotes

Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

I declare the 20th Winter Games closed. I call upon the youth of the world to assemble four years from now in Vancouver, to celebrate the 21st Olympic Winter Games.

I am excited about more than just youth culture, and youth is also stretching a bit longer now. But I have to say resistance and disregard keeps me excited.

Everyday that passes I am pulled from youth as how it has been defined by that culture into something else.

I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.

In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow

I’ve never known fear; as a youth I fought/ In endless battles. I am old, now,/ But I will fight again, seek fame still,/ If the dragon hiding in his tower dares/ To face me

youth is a marvelous garment

Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.

All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.

Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past.

When I was young my heart was young then, too. And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do.

How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth.

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.

Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged.

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

Mornings are mysteries; the first world's youth, Man's resurrection, and the future's bud Shroud in their births.

Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.

It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.

Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?

Maiden, that read'st this simple rhyme, Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay; Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime, For oh, it is not always May!

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

Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.

…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.

Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.

Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.

On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.

You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.

I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young people.

Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.

As we age, the bright light of youth either burns out or burns stronger - it's our choice.

The young don’t know what age is, and the old forget what youth was.

He has existed only, not lived, who lacks wisdom in old age.

For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.

All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter's ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.

Yes, that's the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? That is long ago. We are old folk.

Youth is a predominant factor. We are seeing a young King Arthur, and thereby a young-ish - as I'm into my 40s - Merlin. It was about how to tackle it, from that point view.

we all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.

Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!

I enjoy listening to the albums of my youth as much as ever.

They always say 'youth is wasted on the young' - there's something to that.

That furniture cost me a fortune! It's designer furniture." "Designed by whom ? Darth Vader ? The Hitler Youth ?

The advancement of knowledge must be translated into increasing health and education for the children.

In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but interest, and to lose shame without substituting virtue.