Youth Quotes - page 2

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. (W. Somerset Maugham)
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example. View quote
Alexander Pope
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. View quote
Edmund Burke
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. View quote
Margaret Atwood
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. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing Age, which forgives itself anything, is forgiven nothing. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have... whether you like it or not. View quote
Josh McDowell
Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself. View quote
Emil Cioran
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. (Joseph Addison)
When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord. View quote
Willa Cather
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. View quote
Robert Browning
Youth is a period of missed opportunities. View quote
Cyril Connolly
Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength. View quote
Betty Friedan
Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom. View quote
Vita Sackville-West
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. View quote
Anne Bradstreet
Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own. View quote
Logan Pearsall Smith
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth. View quote
Natalie Clifford Barney
Take a course of good water and air, and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. (John Muir)
All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by. View quote
Conrad Aiken
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Youth is something very new twenty years ago, no one mentioned it. View quote
Coco Chanel