Best 1761 quotes in «youth quotes» category

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.

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

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 rider that breaks youth.

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

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

Time is the subtle thief of youth.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

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

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.

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.

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

Too young for woe, though not for tears.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

We are slowly isolating the genes involved with the aging process. We do not have the fountain of youth, but I think, in the coming decades, we will unravel the aging process at the genetic level.

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

We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.

We have thought that because children are young they are silly. We have forgotten the blind stirrings, the reaching outward of our own youth.

We can not run away from our youth. We have to put them in the lead

We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.

We have a professional relationship [with Chancellor Angela Merkel].2016 is the year of the German-Russian youth exchange, so the relations are moving on.

We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the youth to emulate. The youth rightly don't like them.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

We begin to die from the moment we are born, for birth is the cause of death. The nature of decay is inherent in youth, the nature of sickness is inherent in health, in the midst of life we are verily in death.

We have very close humanitarian contacts [with China], wide-ranging youth exchanges, educational and regional contacts, and all of them continue to develop.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

We live in a society that worships youth. On television, in magazines, in advertisements and on billboards, what sells and what is sold to us is youth.

We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.

We must be young to do great things.

We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down to pass on.