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Quotes About Youth

We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.
~ Philip Larkin
The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!
~ Charles Dickens
Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I'll trade wisdom for youth any day.
~ Brad Pitt
What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.
~ Thomas Browne
If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
In a materialistic society, an employed boy is older than an unemployed man.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by its young converts.
~ Robert Frost
You see, wisdom does not come with grey hairs.
~ Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.
~ Fredrik Backman, Beartown
Young love is common, but that doesn't mean it's not precious.
~ Eoin Colfer, Airman
The glory of youth is their strength.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
They that be born in the strength of youth are of one fashion, and they that are born in the time of age, when the womb fail, are otherwise.
~ Compton Gage
Like as a young child may not bring forth the things that belong to the aged, even so have I disposed the world which I created.
~ Compton Gage
Give A Child Some Measure Of Confidence And You Have Caused Him To Stand On Equal Footing With His Counterparts...
~ Agu, Jaachynma N.E.
Wisdom comes from education and experience—not from age.
~ Debasish Mridha
But if I am young, thou shouldest look to my merits, not to my years.
~ Sophocles, Antigone
Sarcasm is waster on the young.
~ Bert McCoy
It's amazing how when we were young we wanted to know what it felt like to be older and when we are older we want the feeling of being younger again.
~ DeWayne Owens
Every new dayOur children's joy is as fresh as roses, Even the birds chatter at dawn.
~ Scott Hastie
Don't box your children in and tell them that everything is a sin. You'll produce either rebels, or very boring people.
~ C. JoyBell C.