Quotations
Quotes:
The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.
View quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
View quotes by Hosea Ballou
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
View quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age
View quotes by Victor Hugo
I'm not the callow youth of yesteryear. I'm a man of steel, honed on the handle of life. [Reg in Corrie]
View quotes by Ken Morley
That miracle of youth, Mr Christopher Wren. (Diary of John Evelyn)
View quotes by John Evelyn
'I feel close to the rebelliousness and vigour of the youth here. Perhaps time will separate us, but nobody can deny that here, behind the windows of Manchester, there is an insane love of football, of celebration and of music.'
View quotes by Eric Cantona
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
[The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891]
View quotes by Oscar Wilde
Nature is cruel; therefore we are also entitled to be cruel. When I send the flower of German youth into the steel hail of the war without feeling the slightest regret over the precious German blood that is being spilled, should I also not have the right to eliminate millions of an inferior race that multiply like vermin.
View quotes by Adolf Hitler
'Pan, who and what art thou?' [Hook] cried huskily.
'I'm youth, I'm joy,' Peter answered at a venture, 'I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.'
View quotes by Peter Pan
Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that you always carry in your heart.
View quotes by Raisa Gorbachev
Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season of credulity.
View quotes by William Pitt
As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don't leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
View quotes by Nikolai Gogol
To play billiards well is a sign of an ill-spent youth (attributed, 1908)
View quotes by Charles Roupell
Age is deformed, youth unkind, We scorn their bodies, they our mind (Chrestoleros)
View quotes by Thomas Barnard
Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.
View quotes by George Borrow
Untaught the noble end of glorious truth, Bred to deceive even from their earliest youth
View quotes by Anne Ingram
How beautiful is youth, that is always slipping away!
Whoever wants to be happy, let him be so: of tomorrow there's no knowing.
View quotes by Lorenzo De' Medici
If youth knew; if age could.
( Si jeunesse savait; si vieillesse pouvait )
View quotes by Henri Estienne
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
View quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
Proverbs:
Youth Is Wasted On The Young
A Growing Youth Has A Wolf In His Belly
Youth And Old Age Will Never Agree
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