Quotes About Youth

In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument has lost its strings, or is out of tune, it does not follow that the musician has lost his skill.

Ah me! what wonder-working, occult science Can from the ashes in our hearts once more The rose of youth restore? What craft of alchemy can bid defiance To time and change, and for a single hour Renew this phantom-flower?

Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.

He felt that his soul had remained among the pirates – he was young and from the country and still ignorant of Love's piracies.

It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette.

My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.

All the old clichés about women need to be undone. Enough already. We're in the other position now. We are desirable older, we can date younger guys and it's not this big taboo. Men have been doing this for years.

Belle]'d fallen in love with him at fifteen, galloping down clay roads with the leaves of autumn swirling around them. They'd discovered the nooks and crannies of passion in his mother's darkened parlor on a rolling sea of dark wine velvet, amid a flotilla of lacy white antimacassars...

On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet.

Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

whom the god loves dies young

Even innocence itself has many a wile, And will not dare to trust itself with truth, And love is taught hypocrisy from youth.

Wedded she some years, and to a man Of fifty, and such husbands are in plenty; And yet, I think, instead of such a ONE 'Twere better to have TWO of five and twenty...

Then away with all such from the head that is hoary! What care I for the wreaths that can only give glory?

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

no pierdas tiempo, hijo mio, en formar tu gusto, tus modales, tu mente y todo lo que has de tener; pues lo que, hasta cierto punto, seas a los veinte anos, eso, con poca diferencia, seras todo el resto de tu vida

And you that sought for magic in your youth but desire it not in your age, know that there is a blindness of spirit which comes from age, more black than the blindness of eye, making a darkness about you across which nothing may be seen, or felt, or known, or in any way apprehended.

I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.

Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls. They should take a real and not a visionary share in the welfare of the nation.

The teacher must ever walk warily between the necessity of inducing those conformities which in every generation reaffirm our rebellious humanity, and of allowing for the free play of the creative spirit.

The night and the streets were ours and the future lay sparkling ahead. And we thought we would know each other forever.

I am the only one who can speak for them, and for the children we were.

Not in a wig and red lips, all slender and seductive and sultry with beautiful false green eyes and an accent and walk that made him weak at the knees. The sixteen-year-old Katarina who reported him to the Whistler police, who accused him and his friends of gang rape, was a fat-ass, pimply-faced, desperate little slut of a schoolgirl. A fangirl who, according to other students at her school, had a poster of him on the inside of her locker.