The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Those whom the gods love grow young.
Oscar Wilde
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business.
Francis Bacon
Youth is like spring, an overpraised season.
Samuel Butler
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
Aristotle
Youth is wasted on the young.
George Bernard Shaw
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
Dave Barry
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
Oscar Wilde
I see what keeps people young: work!
Ted Turner
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
Natalie Clifford Barney
Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties,And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.
Joseph Hilaire Pierre Ren Belloc
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
Samuel Butler
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
Aristotle
The young always have the same problem how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this problem by defying their elders and copying each other.
Quentin Crisp