Quotes About Youth

Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born.

King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.

The boy that you loved is the man that you fear.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

In spring a young mans fancy turns to a fancy young man.

They did more than take our youth away. They also took away the men we were going to be.

Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.

We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East.

Young men preen. Old men scheme.

It's so rare, especially as a younger actor, to find a role where it's not just one-dimensional and it's not just a stock leading man.

I thought, writing is everything, it's so much more important than this or that. If only I could give that young man a stern talking to. Having a child changes things quite a bit.

I might look like a honey-eyed schoolgirl on the outside, in my skirt with its regulation four-inches-above-the-knee hem. But I'll rip those tassels off your shoes, old man. Just try Googling me.

As a ten-year-old boy, the Thief of Eddis could stop a grown man in his tracks with a single look. Where had that look gone?

All men leave the harbour of youth, but only few reach the very far island of wisdom!

Don't ever take seriously, don't ever consider, don't even pay any attention to what a man says or does until he gets to about 30.

Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre verses of the young man she is in love with.

Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.

How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence?

Men do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain.

the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.

A young man ain't nothin' in the world these days

I have engaged in hyper-male culture, and I'm learning about it, and I'm learning how I can change and help young boys and young men change.

I feel like a young man of 15.

The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer.