YOUTH QUOTES IV
quotations about youth
Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages.
FRANCIS BACON
Essays
Youth has needs, I know,
And headlong yearnings like the mountain streams
That rush adown the nearest path they find
To meet the sounding river.
ANNA KATHERINE GREEN
"Womanhood"
Youth is the time when hearts are large.
HERMAN MELVILLE
"On the Slain Collegians"
If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings
HARUKI MURAKAMI
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Youth is the golden period of life, and every well-spent moment will be like good seed planted in an auspicious season.
ELIZA COOK
Eliza Cook's Journal
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth.
CICERO
attributed, Day's Collacon
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?
CONFUCIUS
The Wisdom of Confucius
Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah.
DAVID LEVITHAN
Marly's Ghost
In the central place of your heart there is a wireless station. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, grandeur, courage, and power from the earth, from men and from the Infinite--so long are you young. When the wires are all down and the central places of your heart are covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then are you grown old, indeed!
SAMUEL ULLMAN
"Youth", The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood
A man that is young in years, may be old in hours, if he have lost no time.
FRANCIS BACON
"Of Youth And Age", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral
I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
Rebecca
You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
TIMOTHY LEARY
attributed, Office Yoga: Simple Stretches for Busy People
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Youth, what man's age is like to be doth show;
We may our ends by our beginnings know.
JOHN DENHAM
Of Prudence
The period of youth is the glory of nature, and the healthful development of all the resources of strength deposited in our nature is the glory of youth.
ELIAS LYMAN MAGOON
Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of Wisdom
Youth is not only the future of the country. Youth is first and foremost the present of this country. And it is by investing in youth in the present that one can speak legitimately about its future.
HAITI LIBRE
"The involvement of youth in Haitian politics", Haiti Libre, January 3, 2017
Youth is not a time of life--it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a tempermental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease. This often exists in a man of fifty, more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals.
SAMUEL ULLMAN
"Youth", The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
OSCAR WILDE
The Picture of Dorian Gray
I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.
FRAN LEBOWITZ
The Paris Review, summer 1993
Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness, are like the days of spring; instead of complaining of their brevity try to enjoy them.
RUCKERT
attributed, Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopedia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors