~ Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~
~ Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over. ~
~ We pay when old for the excesses of youth. ~
~ What I regret about the follies of youth is not having committed them but not being able to do so again. ~
~ 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. ~
~ 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 ~
~ In youth, everything seems possible; but we reach a point in the middle years when we realize that we are never going to reach all the shining goals we had set for ourselves, with what grace we can, to living with our ulcers and arthritis, our sense ~
~ Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly. ~