Quotes About Youth
Great quotes about youth provide inspirational messages to old and young alike. Many would wish for youth again but only if they could take their years of wisdom with them. There are those who enjoy their years now that they understand that they made mistakes that they wouldn't want to repeat. "An opportunity to do more, have more but a failing of youth is to have materialistic things now instead of investing in their own future." related - quotes about age. . . quotes about childhood. . . quotes on growing up . . . quotes about teenagers"The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball."
Doug Larson
"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt."
Herbert Hoover
"Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."
Samuel Ullman
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"Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing."
George Bernard Shaw
"Young men think old men fools and old men know young men to be so."
Author Unknown
"In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long."
Nikita Ivanovich Panin
"The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded upon a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older."
William Lyon Phelps
"Praise youth and it will prosper."
Irish Proverb
"Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many."
Author Unknown
"Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life."
Herbert Asquith
"Stay young by continuing to grow. You do not grow old, you become old by not growing."
Wilferd Peterson, The Art of Living
"Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing."
Aristotle
"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"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
"I am not young enough to know everything."
Oscar Wilde
"He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden."
Plato
"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age."
French Proverb
"Age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!"
Charles Dickens
"Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all!"
Washington Irving
"Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long, - it is exceedingly short."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success."
Louisa May Alcott
"In youth we learn, in old age we understand."
Mexican Phrase
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