Quotes About Youth

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth-I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth.

Beauty and ugliness disappear equally under the wrinkles of age; one is lost in them the other hidden.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

If youth knew; if age could.