Best 1761 quotes in «youth quotes» category

Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.

Man hath a weary pilgrimage, As through the word he wends; On every stage, from youth to age, Still discontent attends.

Man is doomed either squander his youth, which is the only time he has to store provisions for the coming years and provide for his own well-being, or to spend his youth procuring pleasures in advance for that time of life when he will be too old to enjoy them.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Maybe you just get so attached to the music of your youth that you think it's better than what's coming out now.

Midnight, and love, and youth, and Italy!

men are attracted to beauty because it indicates health and youth—no point mating with a sickly woman who won’t be around to raise the children.

Modesty should accompany youth.

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

Money. . . those who don't have enough of it are only aware of what it can buy them. When you finally have enough of it you become aware- acutely aware-of all the things it can't buy ... the really important things, like youth, health, love, peace of mind.

Most youth still hold the same values of their parents…if we do not alter this pattern, if we don’t resocialize, our system will decay.

Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.

Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.

Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

My mum came from nothing and didn't have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot of her social inadequacies on that.

My reasoning, if one can call it that, was inflamed by the scatter shot passions of youth and a literary diet overly rich in the works of Nietzshe, Kerouac, and John Menlove Edwards.

my youth, one time, that time I knew even through the nothingness, it was a celebration of something not to do but only know.

My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.

My young friend supposes his ingenuousness is merely a ruse.

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

Nixon wasn't really considered the president by the youth of America. He was considered to be a fraud and which he proved himself to be.

Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.

No one can question the talent of India's youth after the success of the Mars Mission. Everything indigenous!

No exchange rate for the confidence of youth.

No man is too good to be the athletic coach for youth.

Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between.

now I am capable of youth, but not capable of few years - that is the pitiful thing.

Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.

Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say, Birds chuse their mates and couple too this day: But by their flight I never can devine When I shall couple with my valentine.

Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.

Nutritional excellence is the only real fountain of youth.

Of course we can talk about the radical potential of youth. But in the U.S. it is still the case that most youth are conservative and not very sympathetic to the working class.

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

Old age and youth cannot live together.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.