Best 1761 quotes in «youth quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

All our dreams begin in youth.

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 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 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.

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.

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

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

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

American youth is looking for a reason to die.

An Idle youth, a needy Age.

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

an artist is always seeking revelation.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.

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

Avarice is rarely the vice of youth.

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

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

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

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

Being born in '31 was during the Depression and in my earlier youth World War II took place - so it was not the best of times, and yet I don't recall ever having experiences that were a burden.

Being in nature is inspiring. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania and spent countless hours of my youth wandering the woods in awe of the beauty that exists all around us.

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

Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.

Bodybuilding is the closest we have to the fountain of youth.

A youth, like a tree, needs pruning.

Boulevards are like people: similar in their youth, they undergo gradual change according to what ferments in them.

But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth Are children of one mother, even Love.

By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, And that no woman has, nor never none Shall mistress be of it save I alone.

Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.

Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages.

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

A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated.