Quotes About Youth

Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.

It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Whatever good there is in small boys is usually based upon their admiration for girls of their own age.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.

Age is like love, it cannot be hid.

Though the Jazz Age continued, it became less and less of an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.

Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee.

We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people -- leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

At your age The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble.

The old age of an eagle is better than the youth of a sparrow.

Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.