Young Quotes

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

Hector Hugh Munro

When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to grant the permission reluctantly, fearing that any moment they will find out the imposture of that showy chaff. But this tenderness is quite unnecessary; the enchantments are laid on very thick. Their young life is thatched with them. Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hang it round with frippery romance, like the children of the happiest fortune.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you are young, you should live out every weekend. Even if you look like a scarecrow, you just gotta go!

Jonathan Brandis

Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious

P.G. Wodehouse

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.

Henri B. Stendhal

Man always kills the things he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

Aldo Leopold

THE BEST career advice given to the young is: ?Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.?

Katherine Whitehorn

But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon, And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.

William Shakespeare

Water Quote:I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul

Victor Hugo

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Lucille Ball

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

Huey Newton

This young man-whether he's my son or a stranger-repeatedly declares, "I didn't do it, I didn't do it." And he's shot down. That's not the American way of life. A man is innocent until he's proved guilty

Marguerite Oswald

Young lovers and young nations face the same problem: after orgasm, what?

Mignon McLaughlin

Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beauseant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost."

Edward George Earl Bulwer Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.

Heywood Broun