Quotes About Youth

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.

Curfew must not ring tonight.

Remember when we used to laugh at old people when we were young? Do you recall what was so funny?

I wouldn't say someone is old just because his social security is in Roman numerals or because Mozart played at his senior prom.

You're only young once, but you can always be immature.

Boys will be boys.

A boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.

There was a small boy of Quebec Who was buried in snow to the neck: When they said 'Are you friz?' He replied 'Yes, I is - But we don't call this cold in Quebec!'

To remain young one must change.

The most amazing thing about little children ... was their fantastic adaptability.

Children should be seen and not heard.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.

A child's a plaything for an hour.

An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.

Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish allusions.

Juvenile appraisals of other juveniles make up in clarity what they lack in charity.

A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent.

All children wear the sign: 'I want to be important NOW.' Many of our juvenile delinquency problems arise because nobody reads the sign.

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

On with the dance! Let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet.