Quotes About Youth

A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

It's my job to try to communicate with as little showiness as possible. I was a really showy actor as a young man.

Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy.

On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.

You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.

No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game

I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty

When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.

When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.

That's what children do - throw food. That's not fighting. We were real men. We'd have chinned them.

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.

Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death. [Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]

Pension never inriched young man. [Pension never enriched a young man.]

Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.

A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.

Do you know anybody under 25 that gives a damn whether you marry a man if you're a man or if you marry a woman if you're a woman? No.

When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract.

Youth, ah, Youth! all men's desire and sorrow.

Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?

There's a punk rock quality to Peter Parker, that I identified with when I read the comics [Spider-Man], and that I really liked. He has this chip on his shoulder.