youth quotes

• Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. (Herbert Hoover) [men/war/youth/fight]
• And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed, to the time the wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest and killed their meat as they ran it down. (Jack London) [experience/youth/time/wild]
• In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. ( Socrates) [childhood/youth/age/prudent]
• There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. (Sophia Loren) [youth/mind/creativity/life]
• Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. ( Aristotle) [youth/reproach/age]
• Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. (Thomas Arnold) [life/age/youth/age]
• Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. (Jacqueline Bisset) [character/beauty/youth]
• All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. (Elizabeth Bowen) [youth/greatness/find]
• Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy. (Claude M. Bristol) [/youth/wish]
• What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. (Robert Browning) [youth/age]
• The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. (Edmund Burke) [vanity/age/youth]
• The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it. (Samuel Butler) [youth/art/youth/knowledge]
• History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. (Thomas Carlyle) [people/youth]
• Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes. (Thomas Carlyle) [youth/life]
• Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [youth/power/knowledge/inspiration]
• Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age. (Marcus Cicero) [youth/prudence/age]
• A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body. (Marcus Cicero) [youth/soul & body]
• 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. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. (Marcus Cicero) [youth/youth/soul & body/mind]
• The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. (Charles Caleb Colton) [youth/age/interest]
• I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself. (Joseph Conrad) [remember/youth/feeling/willpower]
• Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. (Daniel Defoe) [age/youth/age]
• The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth. (Benjamin Disraeli) [hope-disappointment/youth]
• Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret. (Benjamin Disraeli) [youth/age]
• The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity. (Benjamin Disraeli) [youth/posterity]
• Youth is the trustee of prosperity. (Benjamin Disraeli) [youth]
• Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone. (John Dryden) [age/youth]
• I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. (Albert Einstein) [solitude/youth/maturity]
• The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [search/men/youth]
• Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [character/youth]
• We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [take/youth/age/age]
• Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [youth/form]

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