Youth Quotes

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew

What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.

…for what after all is Youth and Beauty?

Children think around corners.

You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt, I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.

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

I'm young as morningand fresh as dew.Everybody loves meand so do you.

The crowd of influences streaming on the young soul is so great, the clods of barbarism and violence flung at him so strange and overwhelming, that an assumed stupidity is his only refuge.

But some people, and especially very young people, don’t think anything’s worth believing unless it’s hard to believe.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.

Few, if any, survive their teens.

Youth is something I never wanna take for granted. I just want to smile and live life.

Young people do not like to be always thwarted.

A young man can work at excessive speed with no ill effects, but youth is unfortunately not a permanent condition of life.

It's the people who aren't scared who die young.

The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has revealed to them her latest wonder.

Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.

I rather would entreat thy companyTo see the wonders of the world abroadThan, living dully sluggardiz'd at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.

Golden lads and girls all must, like chimmney-sweepers, come to dust.

Young things like you don't need any ornaments but those you wear to-night: youth, health, intelligence, and modesty.

More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by its young converts.

O you youths, Western youths, So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship, Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost, Pioneers! O pioneers!

He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly inconstant. In fact, he summed up all the romance that her age and environment led her to desire

What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts.

We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow

The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkness - the old illusion that truth and beauty were in some way entwined.

To love and be loved, that is the miracle of youth

such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.

Lust is the best of all the deadly sins.

Each night when she prepared for bed she smeared her face with some new unguent which she hoped illogically would give back the glow and freshness to her vanishing beauty.

Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue. That's what's called ingenuousness.

The surest way of ruining a youth is to teach him to respect those who think as he does more highly than those who think differently from him.

Every garden looks beautiful in May.' Meaning: Everyone is somewhat attractive when she's young.

In early youth as we contemplate our coming life we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young.

When I was younger I could remember anything whether it had happened or not.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backward while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong but it will advance its allotted length.

The youth gets together this material to build a bridge to the moon or perchance a palace or temple on earth and at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

It's all that the young can do for the old to shock them and keep them up to date.

Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!

We think our fathers fools so wise we grow Our wiser sons no doubt will think us so.

Ah sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth and none or almost none for the disenchantments of age.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

If youth knew if age could.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.