Youth Quotes

Youth doesn't take advice.

Age is deformed, youth unkind, We scorn their bodies, they our mind.

I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!

I believe that those who knew me [in my youth] took me for an eccentric.

Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.

Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.

In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom.

Gathering of the Vibes is a gathering of the elders, a gathering of the youth, a gathering of family

In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal.

Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.

Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.

I thought no more was needed Youth to prolong Than dumb-bell and foil To keep the body young. O who could have foretold That the heart grows old?

The power of a king lies in his mighty arms; that of a brahmana in his spiritual knowledge; and that of a woman in her beauty youth and sweet words.

Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.

I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.

We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.

We must be laid like a brand in the fire ... if we would gain immortal youth.

To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.

Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.

He is in youth swift, pliant and merry, and leapeth and rusheth on all thing that is before him; and is lead by a staw and playeth there with.

Fair youth, I would I could make thee believe I love.

Only those young people can be accepted as healthy who refuse to be reconciled with the old order and foolishly or wisely struggle against it - such is the will of nature...

With God in the Joy of Beauty and Youth

Christmas day is the children's, but the holidays are youth's dancing-time.

By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, And that no woman has, nor never none Shall mistress be of it save I alone.

The thoughts of Youth are long, long thoughts

When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.

It is always "Youth, youth," when there is nothing else to be said.

Wilderness gave us knowledge. Wilderness made us human. We came from here. Perhaps that is why so many of us feel a strong bond to this land called Serengeti; it is the land of our youth.

Nothing is more cruel to the young than to tell them that the world is made for youth.

Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.

Whom the gods love die young no matter how long they live.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

God help us for we knew the worst too young.

Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.

In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it's so powerful in many ways, and so creative.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto everything you saw and made it brighter?

I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

I feel sad for him. Sad for the boy bound to the killer. I am sad for the youth betrayed by their leaders for symbols and flags and war and power.

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn't do.

There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.

When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.

Do not be too sure, young fellows, That you are better than your ancestors.

I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.

Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful.

for whenever men are right they are not young