YOUTH QUOTES II

quotations about youth

Youth quote

In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves
For a bright manhood, there is no such word
As "fail".

EDWARD BULWER LYTTON

Richelieu

Tags: Edward Bulwer Lytton


Oh happy youth! life's oasis of beauty!
What time in after years so pure and sweet?
Free from the lab'ring progress of great manhood,
It treads life's pathway with elastic feet!

C. B. LANGSTON

"Youth"


Youth is about giving fresh blood a chance.

AARON MOOY

"Harry Kewell in Australia: Socceroos icon on youth development, national side", Sportal, March 16, 2017


That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.

ROBERT HERRICK

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

Tags: Robert Herrick


We are young only once, after that we need some other excuse.

ANONYMOUS

Tags: humorous quotes


When beautiful youth is gone, not much of life remains.

G. ULTHORN

attributed, Day's Collacon


The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there must be something vital to rebel against and if the elderly stiffly refuse to put up a vigorous front of their own, it leaves the entire situation in a mist.

JANE ADDAMS

The Second Twenty Years at Hull-House

Tags: Jane Addams


Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

ROB SHEFFIELD

Love is a Mix Tape


Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays

Tags: Francis Bacon


Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.

FRANK HERBERT

Chapterhouse: Dune

Tags: Frank Herbert


When you're young, you think you can handle anything. By the time you find out otherwise, it's already too late. You got a stocking wrapped around your neck.

HARUKI MURAKAMI

Dance, Dance, Dance

Tags: Haruki Murakami


There is a very prevalent tenet with youth, that good company is every thing desirable, and that bad is even better than none.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections

Tags: Norman MacDonald


So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Richard III

Tags: William Shakespeare


Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.

AMBROSE BIERCE

"The Moonlit Road"

Tags: Ambrose Bierce


The mirror of my youth will never lie.

BARBARA O'SULLIVAN

"The Mirror of My Youth", The Steel Mirror: Sonnets and Poems


A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

Tags: Charles Caleb Colton


The problem with this generation of youth is that they are scared of taking risks and are not passionate enough to go out and create the future they want to experience.

CLAUDIA TURBAY QUINTERO

"Take advantage of opportunities to improve yourselves", Graphic Online, March 16, 2017


He whom the gods love dies young.

MENANDER

attributed, Day's Collacon


That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

PHILIP PULLMAN

The Golden Compass


Youth is only ever fun in retrospect.

SUNDARA KARMA

"Youth is Only Ever Fun in Retrospect"