Youth Quotes

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age

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

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine
Thomas More

There is a place in God's sun for the youth 'farthest down' who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to reach it
Mary McLeod Bethune

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going.
John B. Priestly

Time, the subtle thief of youth

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
Doris Day

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years

Youth is like spring, an overpraised season

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.







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