Quotes About Youth

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

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Only the young die good.

I am constantly amazed when I talk to young people to learn how much they know about sex and how little about soap.

The joy of the young is to disobey - but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.

Youth has become a class.

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.

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.

The interests of childhood and youth are the interests of mankind.

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.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own.

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

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more - the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men.

Reckless youth makes rueful age.

Youth will be served.

Yes, you may depend upon it he has the ability! He is the younger generation that stands ready to knock at my door - to make an end of Halvard Solness.

All the world's a mass of folly, Youth is gay, age melancholy: Youth is spending, age is thrifty, Mad at twenty, cold at fifty; Man is nought but folly's slave, From the cradle to the grave.

Your old men shall dream dreams; your young men shall see visions.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

If youth but knew, and age were able, Then poverty would be a fable.

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

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