Best 1761 quotes in «youth quotes» category

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

an artist is always seeking revelation.

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

An Idle youth, a needy Age.

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

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.

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.

American youth is looking for a reason to die.

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

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

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

Avarice is rarely the vice of youth.

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

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

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.

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

A youth, like a tree, needs pruning.

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

A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

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

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.

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.

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

by the mercy of God all the ideas of youth are reversible!

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.

California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.

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

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

Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages.

Coming out of indecisiveness and being determined is the pre condition for being called young.

Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what they have in beliefs, ideas and possessions. The sterile radical, too, is basically conservative. He is afraid to let go of the ideas and beliefs he picked up in his youth lest his life be seen as empty and wasted.

Courage is the fairest adornment of youth.

Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.

Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature.

Delight, Delight, Delight...in our youth.

Diamonds are forever, my youth is not.

Don't waste your youth growing up.

Don't you think that the Beatles gave every sodden thing they've got to be the Beatles? That took a whole section of our youth - that whole period - when everybody else was just goofin' off we were workin' 24 hours a day!

During my youth, I was fascinated by the colors of Van Goth's paintings