YOUTH QUOTES III
quotations about youth
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth.
CICERO
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
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
Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.
FRANK HERBERT
Chapterhouse: Dune
The ship of youth crowds sail; but if the wind forsakes it, the canvas hangs motionless, awaiting a friendly breath; and too often illusions are summoned to its aid.
MME. SWETCHINE
The Writings of Madame Swetchine
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
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
Youth has needs, I know,
And headlong yearnings like the mountain streams
That rush adown the nearest path they find
To meet the sounding river.
ANNA KATHERINE GREEN
"Womanhood"
Youth is but an insecure custodian.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Youth without beauty is half a prize.
G. WHITE
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.
SAUL BELLOW
Seize the Day
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
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
All of us who are worth anything spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
letter to John Gisborne, Nov. 16, 1819
My salad days;
When I was green in judgment.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Antony and Cleopatra
I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.
FRAN LEBOWITZ
The Paris Review, summer 1993
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
Youth is an essence as much as it is a phase of life.
JULIAN KIMBLE
"At Trillectro, youth is not wasted", Washington Post, August 28, 2016
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