Youth Quotes

"George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - he could not even lie."
-Mark Twain

"Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing."
-George Bernard Shaw

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own."
-Sidney J. Harris

"We have some salt of our youth in us."
-William Shakespeare

"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young."
-J. K. Rowling

"Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth."
-J. K. Rowling

"No wise man ever wished to be younger."
-Jonathan Swift

"I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development."
-Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are."
-Cary Grant

"Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these."
-Dr. Robert H. Goddard

"The secret of eternal youth is arrested development."
-Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life."
-Edward G. Bulwer lytton

"If when you're young you only knew, if when you're older you still could."
-Henri Estienne

"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."
-Henry James

"Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted."
-Andre Malraux

"If youth only knew: if age only could. "
-Henri Estienne

"A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released."
-Robert Penn Warren

"Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme."
-Aaron Hill

"In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long."
-Pope Paul Vi

"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded."
-W. Somerset Maugham

"We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends."
-Mary Mcleod Bethune

"The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect."
-Anne Rice

"Oh FUCK the longings and agonies of youth."
-John Irving

"Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one."
-George Borrow

"In youth we learn; in age we understand."
-Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

"I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg."
-James M. Barrie