Quotes About Youth

When I think of a merry, happy, and free young girl - and look at the ailing aching state a young wife is generally doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.

Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.

I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.

For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.

My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

On marriage to Jonny Lee Miller: It comes down to timing. I think he's the greatest husband a girl could ask for. I'll always love him, we were simply too young.

He is but as the stubble of the field, and yet he has no beard.

As a general thing people marry most happily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age when they do not really know what their own kind is.

One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour.

Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family.

I grew up in this medical atmosphere, and thought I wanted to be a doctor. I was a hippie, didn't have a lot of goals.

The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy.

Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.

Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy.

THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh . . . And the same thing is happening to my generation.

Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.

Most men are essentially dead by thirty.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

As long as there are young men with the light of adventure in their eyes and a touch of wildness in their souls, rapids will be run.