Quotes About Youth

I was told that when you hit forty men stop looking at you. It's true, until you slip on a mini-skirt.

It is not so important whether a young man has been through the experience of a mission as it is whether the mission experience has been through him.

Obsession is a young man's game.

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.

How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.

There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young.

National 21 drinking age, huh, what do you think about that? A bunch of malarkey, whatever malarkey is, man, it's a whole bunch of it.

Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns.

I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man, but I'm a boy. A really old boy!

The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.

You know you have a lot of impatience with reality as you see it when you're a young man and full of dynamism and strength and ideals and so on.

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.]

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.

I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.

I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.

Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.

"You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,- Now tell me the reason I pray."

A man in the crowd asks: Hey Rodney, how'd you get started? Rodney: I was 12 years old, alone in my room, and I got started!

There was a young man of Quebec Who was frozen in snow to his neck, When asked, 'Are you Friz?' He replied, 'Yes I is, But we don't call this cold in Quebec.'