Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark, that you always carry in your heart.
—Raisa Gorbacheva (1932–99) Russian Activist
The golden age never leaves the world; it exists still, and shall exist, till love, health, and poetry, are no more—but only for the young.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–73) British Novelist, Poet, Politician
Rejoiced in youth, repented in age.
—German Proverb
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
—William C. Durant (1861–1947) American Industrialist
If only, If only, life was as simple as it was during childhood.
—Indian Proverb
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
—Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish Painter, Sculptor, Artist
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
—Victor Hugo (1802–85) French Novelist
Youth ever thinks that good whose goodness or evil he sees not.
—Philip Sidney (1554–86) English Soldier Poet, Courtier
Some are old in their youth, others young in their old age.
—The Talmud Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
—V. S. Pritchett (1900–97) British Short Story Writer, Biographer, Memoirist, Literary Critic
Youth is wasted on the young.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–63) English Novelist
If a young man is loose in his principles and habits; if he lives without plan and without object, spending his time in idleness and pleasure, there is more hope of a fool than of him.
—Joel Hawes (1789–1867) American Clergyman
If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
—French Proverb
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
Don’t laugh at a youth for his affectations; he’s only trying on one face after another till he finds his own
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946) American-British Essayist, Bibliophile
There is a period near the beginning of every man’s life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.
—E. B. White (1985–99) American Essayist, Humorist
Youth has a small head
—Irish Proverb
Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) American Poet, Educator, Academic
Youth changes its inclinations through heat of blood; old age perseveres in them through the power of habit.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer
Consider what heavy responsibility lies upon you in your youth, to determine, among realities, by what you will be delighted, and, among imaginations, by whose you will be led.
—John Ruskin (1819–1900) English Writer, Art Critic
Which of us that is thirty years old has not had his Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth—the careless sport, the pleasure and passion, the darling joy.
—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–63) English Novelist
I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.
—Margaret Atwood (b.1939) Canadian Writer, Poet, Critic
People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to because otherwise their youth goes with you. It’s very selfish but it’s understandable.
—Mick Jagger (b.1943) English Rock Singer, Songwriter
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1913) American Short-story Writer, Journalist
The surest way to corrupt a young man is to teach him to esteem more highly those who think alike than those who think differently.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
—Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish Painter, Sculptor, Artist
No one should make a statement like “youth is the happiest time of life” without being prepared to accept its intellectual consequences.
—William Lyon Phelps (1865–1943) American Literary Scholar, Academic
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935) American Jurist, Author
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