YOUTH QUOTES IX

quotations about youth

Treasures are not for youth; at twenty years of age, one does not know how to be rich, or how to be loved.

MME. DE GRARDIN

attributed, Day's Collacon


It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

The Rambler, Aug. 21, 1750

Tags: Samuel Johnson


Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. ROWLING

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Tags: J. K. Rowling


Youth is a disease that must be borne with patiently. Time, indeed, will cure it.

ROBERT HUGH BENSON

Come Rack! Come Rope!

Tags: Robert Hugh Benson


You can have your youth
It'll rot before your eyes

BOB DYLAN

"Long Time Gone"

Tags: Bob Dylan


After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

letter to his cousin Cici

Tags: F. Scott Fitzgerald


The youth is always going to decide the future.

BENJI MADDEN

"Benji Madden on Good Charlotte's Comeback, Cameron Diaz and Society's Celebrity Obsession", Newsweek, July 15, 2016


Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them -- the one, in fact, which is not a mask.

W. H. AUDEN

"One of the Family", Forewords and Afterwords

Tags: W. H. Auden


Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Youth and Age", Essays; or Counsels Civil and Moral

Tags: Francis Bacon


I too was young once--or I think so--see,
How the years slip like coins from open hands!

KENNETH RAND

"The Prodigal"

Tags: Kenneth Rand


There's no medicine for getting old and the antidote for youth is experience. But you cannot have a good experience unless you make some bad decisions.

ERROL D. ALEXANDER

The Rattling of the Chains


When I was young my heart was young then, too.
And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do.

ANNE MURRAY

"Snowbird"

Tags: Anne Murray


Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Youth And Age", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

Tags: Francis Bacon


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

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

attributed, Great Quotes for Great Educators

Tags: Goethe


The days of my youth I remember as nearly always in need of explanation, and not as much fun as advertised in the promotions for board games and breakfast cereal.

LEWIS H. LAPHAM

"Fortune's Child", Lapham's Quarterly: Youth


If your youth has come and gone and old age is coming on, and your body bends beneath despair. Take your burden to the cross and leave it there.

GARY QUARLES

Inspirational Poems of God's Love and Guidance


Youth is the season of hope, enterprise, and energy, to a nation as well as an individual.

WILLIAM R. WILLIAMS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Ah me! what wonder-working, occult science
Can from the ashes in our hearts once more
The rose of youth restore?
What craft of alchemy can bid defiance
To time and change, and for a single hour
Renew this phantom-flower?

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

"Palingenesis"

Tags: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

preface, The Snow-Image

Tags: Nathaniel Hawthorne


Identifying and unlocking entrepreneurial potential among youth is vitally important as they are our future economic drivers.

ANONYMOUS

"Campbellsport team wins first place in 2017 IGNITE! Youth Idea Challenge", Fond du Lac Reporter, March 14, 2017