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Quotes About Youth

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.
~ Gene Tierney
Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.
~ Aeschylus
Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
~ Anton Seidl
The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.
~ Aristide Briand
Age doesn't mean anything. Its all in your head. Men get sexier with age. They also get wiser and get experienced.
~ Arjun Rampal
Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.
~ Arthur Helps
I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
~ Lillian Hellman
He seemed wild and dangerous and carefree--well, he would, would'nt he? What were motorcycles and black leather pants if not the uniform of a wild, dangerous and carefree man?
~ Marian Keyes
A man's body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
~ Michael Caine
I made an enjoyable living as a very young man, but I think as I became more comfortable and knowledgeable about myself and what I wanted, I moved into acting.
~ Miguel Ferrer
A word of advice. If, as a young man, student, you are tormented by a desire for women, it is best to get out into the fresh air as much as possible.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.
~ Plato
Lust sullies every age of man, but quite extinguishes old age.
~ Pope Pius II
All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.
~ Herbert Beerbohm Tree
The best advice I can give to any young man or young woman upon graduation from school can be summed up in exactly eight words, and they are-be honest with yourself and tell the truth.
~ James Farley
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
~ James Thurber
I've been married three times, but I'll never forget my first trip as a young man, on my honeymoon, with my new wife.
~ Joe Pesci
Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.
~ Joseph Lancaster
There are one or two young men I wouldn't mind taking home.
~ Judy Parfitt
His coworker was velvety-skinned, a sexy boy-on-the-cusp-of man.
~ Karen Marie Moning