Best 1761 quotes in «youth quotes» category

A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of asinine pronouncements.

Acquaintance; companion; One dear brilliant woman; The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman Bitter glory wrecked.

A feeling of disquiet continues to haunt me. As a youth one dreams of love; by the time one wakes, it is too late.

A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.

Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

Age demands respect; youth, love.

Age hath its quiet calm, and youth enjoyeth not for haste.

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.

Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.

All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.

All men leave the harbour of youth, but only few reach the very far island of wisdom!

All our dreams begin in youth.

All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.

all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened.

All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.

Alone in my room, wrapped in a blanket, I whimpered and talked aloud to myself, recalling the lost glory of my youth when I considered myself, and was considered by others, a bright and capable person. It seemed that was all gone now.

All through the years of our youth Neither could have known Their own thought from the other's, We were so much at one.

Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!

American youth is looking for a reason to die.

an artist is always seeking revelation.

And in the morn and liquid dew of youth, Contagious blastments are are most imminent.

Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it.

An endless war against terrorism can tend to inflate the terrorists, because being at war is attractive to some angry, unemployed, disaffected youth.

An Idle youth, a needy Age.

An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.

At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search for them, or even invent them. But with all that, boredom is their natural and inevitable accompaniment.

As for language, almost everything goes now. That is not to say that verbal taboos have disappeared, but merely that they have shifted somewhat. In my youth, for example, there were certain words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can say them, but you can't say 'girl'.

As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.

At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!

A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.

At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn't yet appreciate its terrible finality or the havoc it could wreak on those who'd entrusted the deceased with their hearts.

As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states - no more, no less.

At 14 you are still in most respects a dependent youth, in some respects a child. At 24 you are an adult. In between, extraordinary turbulences take place.

At 25, you've got millions of brain cells to kill.

audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.

Avarice is rarely the vice of youth.

A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent.

A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not.

A youth, like a tree, needs pruning.

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.

A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.

A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous.

A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.