Youth Quotes

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake

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.

It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon

Youth is the best time to be rich; and the best time to be poor

In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As - fail

If youth did not matter so much to itself it would never have the heart to go on
Willa Sibert Cather

Time - our youth - it never really goes, does it? It is all in our minds
Helen Hoover Santmyer

In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl'
Tom Lehrer

Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

Youth is a disease from which we all recover.
Dorothy Fulheim

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
Lionel Trilling

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

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.

Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon







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