Quotes About Youth

[May 1958, on playing Macbeth at age 30 and age 48] When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.

When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.

All these young millionaires were anarchists, of course: when a man possesses everything it is the supreme luxury for him to deny society: for in that way he can evade his responsibilities

Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave.

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one

Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.

Revolution is the industry of young men.

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.

This is a young man who is only 25, and you have to say, her has answered every question that has ever been asked.

We must not close our eyes to the fact that there are conspiring men who would pollute young boys, and girls of corresponding age, for sake of increasing profits.

I always loved Ponch, man. It was so much fun to be him, to put on my duds and get on that bike and bust the bad guys and help out the kids. And get the babes.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.

I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.

When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

A young mind in a healthy body is a wonderful thing. Especially for an old man with an open night.

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.

The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.