YOUTH QUOTES III

quotations about youth

Youth quote

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

G. ULTHORN
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attributed, Day's Collacon


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A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?

CONFUCIUS

The Wisdom of Confucius

Tags: Confucius


Youth is only ever fun in retrospect.

SUNDARA KARMA

"Youth is Only Ever Fun in Retrospect"


Youth, what man's age is like to be doth show;
We may our ends by our beginnings know.

JOHN DENHAM

Of Prudence

Tags: John Denham


It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.

JON KRAKAUER

Into the Wild


Youth is not rich in time; it may be poor;
Part with it as with money, sparing; pay
No moment but in purchase of its worth,
And what it's worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.

EDWARD YOUNG

Night Thoughts

Tags: Edward Young


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"


To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.

MAYA ANGELOU

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Tags: Maya Angelou


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

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

Tags: Charles Caleb Colton


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.

HUGH HEFNER

Playboy, Jan. 1974

Tags: Hugh Hefner


Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. ROWLING

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Tags: J. K. Rowling


Youth is but an insecure custodian.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

Tags: Edward Counsel


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


Youth is the golden period of life, and every well-spent moment will be like good seed planted in an auspicious season.

ELIZA COOK

Eliza Cook's Journal

Tags: Eliza Cook


What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties.

MARY KARR

Lit


You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

TIMOTHY LEARY

attributed, Office Yoga: Simple Stretches for Busy People

Tags: Timothy Leary


The period of youth is the glory of nature, and the healthful development of all the resources of strength deposited in our nature is the glory of youth.

ELIAS LYMAN MAGOON

Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of Wisdom


The mirror of my youth will never lie.

BARBARA O'SULLIVAN

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


Youth is the time when hearts are large.

HERMAN MELVILLE

"On the Slain Collegians"

Tags: Herman Melville


My salad days;
When I was green in judgment.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Antony and Cleopatra