Quotes About Youth

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Age will bring all things, and everyone knows, Madame, that twenty is no age to be a prude.

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

Young people don't know what age is, and old people forget what youth was.

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. In other words, I don't improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable.

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

At my age, I'm envious of a stiff wind.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.