Best 1761 quotes in «youth quotes» category

Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.

Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

Fear is for the old. Lack of it is one of the joys of youth.

Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.

Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows, ere we have learnt that this fair earth hides graves.

Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.

Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.

For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.

Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality.

For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he will of himself perceive that the beauty of one form is akin to the beauty of another, and that beauty in every form is one and the same.

For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood.

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.

Go back to classical times, say classical Greece. Who drank the hemlock? Was it someone who was conforming, obeying the gods? Or was it someone who was disrupting the youth and questioning the faith and belief? Socrates, in other words. It was Socrates.

For though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears.

For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when they get older, it's like they almost become irrelevant.

For youth no less becomes The light and careless livery that it wears, Than settled age his sables, and his weeds Importing health and graveness.

Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.

happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.

Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.

Having been a singer in a band, back in my youth, music is really important to me.

He has existed only, not lived, who lacks wisdom in old age.

He is in youth swift, pliant and merry, and leapeth and rusheth on all thing that is before him; and is lead by a staw and playeth there with.

He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.

Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged.

Hold fast to life and youth.

Homeland Security was rejecting, is rejecting terms like Jihad. They don't want to use terms like Jihad or Sharia, because they feel that alienates the youth in terms of propagandizing. However, an imam can talk about the killing of gays. To fight a cult, which is, this is the cult, you have to use the terminology of the cult, because how else can you explain what the cult and its practices are?

He wears the rose Of youth upon him.

Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth.

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

How grateful we are for you, our youth.

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot.

I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.

How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence?

I am excited about more than just youth culture, and youth is also stretching a bit longer now. But I have to say resistance and disregard keeps me excited.

I am so glad that I am young, so that I may give my youth to you.

I am just enjoying my youth but I want to settle down eventually.

I believe that those who knew me [in my youth] took me for an eccentric.

I can see both trends among the youths: people who are ready for a constructive, critical and active presence, and others who are ready to become invisible Muslims and to compromise to be accepted. I put my hope in the former and pray for the latter.

I did experiment with marijuana when I was a youth.

I certainly could've gone off track many, many times in my youth.

I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!

I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience

I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and mourned their youth and work they would never produce.