Quotes About Youth

When I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be something I would wake up to find every day once I could smoke, drink and fornicate.

Younger people tend to associate happiness more with excitement and the future, while older people tend to associate happiness with peacefulness in the present.

Childhood may have periods of great happiness, but it also has times that must simply be endured. Childhood at its best is a form of slavery tempered by affection.

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.

youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!

Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.

Albums that remind me of my childhood happiness make me incredibly sad now.

The seeds of a happy marriage are sown in youth. Happiness does not begin at the altar; it begins during the period of youth and courtship.

... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.

Laughter is taken as a sign of strength, freedom, health, beauty, youth, and happiness.

Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream.

Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times was till I left, but I guess that's the way of it

Smile on the face or innocence on the face is as attractive as beauty on the face.

The Smile of a Child enlarge the universe (D'un enfant le sourire - Agrandit l'univers)

Always enjoyed a smile with dimplesBut time adds wrinkles to the smile

I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: "It was the footnotes".

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

I give thanks for ever increasing health, youth and beauty.

[Our children] have been taken away from us by the psychiatric mental-health system. They've been taken away by the educational system, by the government, and by many different forces.

It's the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population.

He who has good health is young.

Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.

If only we could be old and sick while we're still young and healthy enough to put up with it!