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Quotes About Youth

He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
~ Samuel Butler
When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy.
~ Thomas Young
Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.
~ Mark Twain
Old men dream dreams; young men see visions.
~ Melvin B. Tolson
Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.
~ Jean Anouilh
Since I was 15 I've felt kinda like... an old man.
~ Michael Cera
They say that age kills the fire inside of a man, that he hears Death coming, he opens the door and says, "Come in, give me rest!" That is a pack of goddam lies.
~ Anthony Quinn
A man is as old as his arteries.
~ Thomas Sydenham
Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.
~ Diogenes
We want to be, when we are young, A little man. I would like to be a big child, Stronger and fairer than a man, And more lucid than a child.
~ Paul Eluard
The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men.
~ Joe Frazier
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
~ J. K. Rowling
You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.
~ Rodney "Gipsy" Smith
It's better to build boys than mend men.
~ S. Truett Cathy
I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
I don't go for very handsome men. Like they say in England, toy boys break too easily.
~ Eartha Kitt
Inexperience is what makes a young man do what an older man says is impossible.
~ Herbert V. Prochnow
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is boldness.
~ Victor Hugo
It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.
~ Don Meyer
The wise man once said invest young
~ Warren Buffett
Simultaneously I am myself, the child I was, the old man I will be.
~ Peter Matthiessen
Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. But all the young girls who have not known man ... , keep alive for yourselves.
~ Moses
At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé; at thirty, almost senile; at forty, "not so old"; and at fifty, positively skittish.
~ Helen Rowland