Young Quotes - page 4

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. (George McGovern)
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. View quote
George Chapman
I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them. View quote
Rita Rudner
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth. View quote
Natalie Clifford Barney
Here dead we lie because we did not choose To live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; But young men think it is, and we were young. View quote
A. E. Housman
Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went. View quote
Omar Khayyám
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of. View quote
Jane Austen
I've got no respect for a young man who won't join the colors. View quote
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young. View quote
Duke Ellington
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook. (William Cullen Bryant)
Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young. View quote
John Greenleaf Whittier
Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile. View quote
Henry Adams
Most women are not as young as they are painted. View quote
Max Beerbohm
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon. View quote
André Gide
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.' View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man. View quote
Stendhal
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression. View quote
Henri Matisse
I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter. View quote
Katharine Hepburn
It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook. (Anton Chekhov)
I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
It is better to be a young June Bug than an old Bird of Paradise. View quote
Mark Twain
True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years. View quote
Pierre Corneille
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. View quote
Konrad Lorenz