Best 1761 quotes in «youth quotes» category

The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no introspection.

The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.

The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.

The young are amazed when they suffer.

The young have stolen our youthfulness, and flaunt it without shame.

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.

The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish.

The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.

The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.

The youth are the catalysts for real change.

The youthful freshness of a blameless heart.

The young are just as opinionated as the old, but have more exciting things to do than sit around airing their opinions all day.

The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

The youth is better than the old age of friendship.

The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.

Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.

Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth.

To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.

This is his uncle's teaching, this Worcester, Malevolent to you In all aspects, Which makes him prune himself and bristle up The crest of youth against your dignity.

Thus this Earth resembles a great animall or rather an inanimate vegetable, draws in aethereal breath for its dayly refreshment and vitall ferment and transpires again grosses exhalations. And, according to the condition of all other things living, ought to have its time of beginning, youth, old age and perishing.

Time is the subtle thief of youth.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?

To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

To callow wings no flight is too high to attempt. At sixteen all things are possible.

To be young is delightful; to be old is comfortable.

Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow.

To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.

To freeze time, to hold on to youth, this business makes no sense. It's always time that wins in the end.

To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description.

To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.

To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.

To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth

To me, the counterculture was always what I grew up with the hippies in the late '60s. But, however you define it, it's really the excesses of youth and it's something that everyone goes through to some extent. Or if they don't, they should do.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

Too young for woe, though not for tears.

To the young I should offer two maxims: Don't accept superficial solutions of difficult problems. It is better to do a little good than much harm. I should not offer anything more specific; every young person should decide on his or her own credo.

... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?

Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.

Wasting one's youth is better than doing nothing at all with it.

Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older.

Vampires are so sexy and powerful - they're so otherworldly; they have eternal life and youth.

War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so.

We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

We all saw it coming. Arsenal's youth policy has always been very good.