Quotes About Youth

Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90.

I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.

You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

I've honestly not been too aware of my age until I went to the doctor for a full check-up. He said I had the heart of a young man - 'but you're not young, you're 40.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true object of juvenile education, is to provide, against the age of five and twenty, a mind well regulated, active, and prepared to learn. Whatever will inspire habits of industry and observation, will sufficiently answer this purpose.

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful.

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.

That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present.

One of the worst things that can happen in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.

Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth.

An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.