Best 1761 quotes in «youth quotes» category

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Old age and youth cannot live together.

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.

Oliver liked to play the part of disaffected youth, but he liked shopping in SoHo even more.

Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I'll trade wisdom for youth any day.

One can return to their place of birth, but one cannot go back to your youth.

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.

One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.

One thing is certain the only thing that makes you younger or older is that nothing can happen that is different from what you expected and when that happens and it mostly does happen everything is different from what you expected then there is no difference between being younger or older.

[On filmmaking:] Cardinal rule: It's a youth business.

Our culture puts a lot of pressure on the idea that a woman's self-worth is defined by her looks. It's just awful. And they also put a tremendous premier on youth, which is so, so debilitating and upsetting to so many women. I don't know why they're so dopey. Seriously. I don't see any problem with that and if you do, you should celebrate it. Don't chop your face up.

Our duty is to understand youth, but more, to help them understand themselves that they may release their varied abilities... We must help them to discover a life work, not work for life.

Our demographic dividend is our strength. The youth have what it takes to engage with the latest technology.

Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

Our youth are not failing the system; the system is failing our youth. Ironically, the very youth who are being treated the worst are the young people who are going to lead us out of this nightmare.

Our youth [with their overwhelming support of Obama] are voting for a permanent tax on their life

People don't see hunger in front of them so they are not directly affected. What I am doing is connecting young people to the issue

O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.

Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll always have more to give.

Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.

Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

Ponce de Leon, who said when he discovered the Fountain of Youth, Where the hell are the paper cups? Never got a dinner!

Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

Raoul: Age and treachery! Neal: Youth and skill!

Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Reflect, ere you spurn me, that youth at his sides Wears wings; and once gone, all pursuit he derides.

Reckless youth makes rueful age.

Saints preserve us,' Dr. Kellen said, and squeezed Galen's shoulder. 'What have we done to our youth?

Satan knows that youth is the springtime of life when all things are new and young people are most vulnerable.

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

Sending our youth to war is wrong.

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Since time immemorial, youth has set the universal standard of physical beauty, and the reason is simply that a shapely firm young face and body are more attractive sexually and aesthetically than bulges, sags and wrinkles.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?

Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.

Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.

Some people have youth, some have beauty – I have menace.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.