Quotes About Youth

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.

For life in general, there is but one decree; youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wife; and at forty, the judgment.

I view the tea-drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frome, an engender of effeminacy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age.

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasance, age full of care; Youth like the summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

When, at the age of seven, he blew up the family truck by dropping a match down the gas tank, we should have known he'd grow up to make his living hurling verbal firebombs at presidents.

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

In movies, I hope women aren't always portrayed as sex symbols. People like Drew Barrymore are paving the way for girls my age. Hopefully I can pave the way for young actresses, too.

Youth is not measured by the age of a person, but by the curiosity a person keeps.

About age 30 most women think about having children, most men think about dating them.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going.

Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill.

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.

In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Reverence is the chief joy and power of life - reverence for that which is pure and bright in youth; for what is true and tried in age; for all that is gracious among the living, great among the dead, - and marvelous in the powers that cannot die.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

We tried not to age, but Time had its rage.

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility; therefore, my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but k.

Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.