A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
William Shakespeare
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age
Andre Gide
In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears
Joseph Roux
Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
Thomas Carlyle
It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon
Peter Ustinov
Youth is the best time to be rich; and the best time to be poor
Euripides
In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As - fail
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
If youth did not matter so much to itself it would never have the heart to go on
Willa Sibert Cather
In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl'
Tom Lehrer
We are missing something. Our youth today is empty. No longer do the children dream and believe they can change the world. Apathy has destroyed the beautiful idealism of our youth. The intricate illusions and fearless aspirations. The gleam in a child's eye. God help us. All hope is truly lost.
Kate Miller
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 ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded.
William Somerset Maugham