YOUTH QUOTES VI

quotations about youth

So tutor youth that the sins of age be not imputed to thee.

PYTHAGORAS

attributed, Day's Collacon


It is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by an emotion it can never have enough of it.

STEFAN ZWEIG

Beware of Pity

Tags: Stefan Zweig


Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance, as if she were a bud first opening her heart with wondering rapture to the morning. Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest; they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede


Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever?

ALPHAVILLE

"Forever Young"


It must be a very weary day to the youth when he first discovers that, after all, he will only become a man.

ARTHUR HELPS

Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

Tags: Arthur Helps


Youth is when you are supposed to question who you are and what you believe, when the values and personhood given to you by your society and family are subject to critical examination so that you can redefine your own being.

JOE MARIANI

"On snow and God and Swarthmore", Swarthmore Phoenix, March 16, 2017


There may be no fool like an old fool, but our observation has been that the young fool runs him a pretty close second.

ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES

Poems and Paragraphs

Tags: Robert Elliott Gonzales


It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Of Human Bondage

Tags: W. Somerset Maugham


The category of youth is the product of innumerable forms of assessment, intervention and normalisation, as well as the vehicle for achieving a range of social and governmental objectives. In addition, youth is not a singular entity, but rather an entire range of sub-categories: the 'delinquent' youth, the 'subcultural' youth, the 'at-risk' youth.

GORDON TAIT

Making Sense of Mass Education


In youth alone, unhappy mortals live;
But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive:
Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come,
And age, and death's inexorable doom.

VIRGIL

Georgics

Tags: Virgil


The magnet does not more surely and powerfully attract the needle, than youth by some electric sympathy of soul is attracted by youth.

ROBERT SHELTON MACKENZIE

Titian: A Romance of Venice


A youth, like a tree, needs pruning.

WIGGINS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Youth isn't wasted on, or reserved for, the young.

JULIAN KIMBLE

"At Trillectro, youth is not wasted", Washington Post, August 28, 2016


Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?

JULIAN BARNES

The Sense of an Ending

Tags: Julian Barnes


Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick,
Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

The Night of the Iguana

Tags: Tennessee Williams


Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth.

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Lodore

Tags: Mary Shelley


The sport of youth is the terror of age.

ZORZI

attributed, Day's Collacon


For youth, everything is sport.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

attributed, Day's Collacon

Tags: Leonardo da Vinci


Youth that is so highly prized passes quickly like a dream; sad and wrinkled old age forthwith impends over our head.

MIMNERMUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

ARTHUR C. CLARKE

2010: Odyssey Two

Tags: Arthur C. Clarke