Quotes about Youth

Genius lasts longer than beauty

Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.

When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life, now that I'm old - I know it is!

Youth is the only thing worth having.

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect.

The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of the claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transiencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.

A man was coming down the road driving a donkey piled high with firewood. In the distance the churchbells had begun. The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of the claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transiencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.

Satan hath power to assume a pleasing form. Them big blue eyes. Knew more ways to turn a man's head than the devil's grandmother. I dont know where they learn it at. Hell, she wasnt but seventeen.