Quotes About Youth

Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose. That Youth's sweetscented manuscript should close! The Nightingale that in the branches sang Ah whence and whither flown again, who knows?

Until they are of the age to use the brain.

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

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.

You are younger today than you ever will be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for Nature to follow. Now we just set the clock an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.

The span of life is waning fast; Beware, unthinking youth, beware! Thy soul's eternity depends Upon the record moments bear!

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.

She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age.

To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell.

When we're young we want to change the world. When we're old we want to change the young.

A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!

I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

When a man of 40 falls in love with a girl of 20, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.

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

Young folk, silly folk; old folk, cold folk.

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

Young men think old men fools and old men know young men to be so.

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded upon a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.

It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.