Quotes About Youth

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed.

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

The young Cambridge group, the group that stood for "freedom" and flannel trousers and flannel shirts open at the neck, and a well-bred sort of emotional anarchy, and a whispering, murmuring, sort of voice, and an ultra-sensitive sort of manner.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.

Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought to be given. To the irritation of authority figures of all sorts, children expend considerable energy in "clowning around." They refuse to appreciate the gravity of our monumental concerns, while we forget that if we were to become more like children our concerns might not be so monumental.

Men who look young, act young, and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young-but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution what would be excessive in their grandfathers-are the curses of the world.

Flowers are words Which even a babe may understand.

There is no chance for old fools.

You men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are the fools.

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

Keep flax from fire, youth from gaming.

A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.

Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time, which explains why young years pass slowly, while later life flings itself faster and faster upon its course.

Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.

From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.

When I was young I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness. I was right.

An old head upon young shoulders.

In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage, so long are you young.

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

Youth condemns; maturity condones.