Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.
~By Virgil ~
War is horrible because it strangles youth.
~By Philip Kearny ~
We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.
~By William Godwin ~
I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it.
~By Gerry Cooney ~
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.
~By George A. Smith ~
Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young.
~By Goldie Hawn ~
Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes.
~By Francis Parker Yockey ~
I've experienced first-hand the wonderful work organizations like J Bar J do for young people in Central Oregon and I am encouraged that the federal government is taking an active role in the Cascade Youth and Family Center.
~By Greg Walden ~
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
~By Hosea Ballou ~
The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
~By Malcolm Muggeridge ~
The sun stands for energy and youth, which is what I thought the circus should be about.
~By Guy Laliberte ~
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
~By Mary Wortley ~
You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.
~By Angela Davis ~
An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.
~By John McCarthy ~
The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.
~By Sargent Shriver ~
Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.
~By Earl Wilson ~
Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.
~By Gustav Heinemann ~
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
~By Natalie Clifford Barney ~
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
~By Edvard Munch ~
I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.
~By Marc Newson ~
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.
~By Logan P. Smith ~
Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
~By Edward Abbey ~
It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures.
~By Jerry Stiller ~
But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.
~By Rebecca H. Davis ~
After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
~By Mary McLeod Bethune ~
Youth should be a savings bank.
~By Anne Sophie Swetchine ~
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
~By Aristotle ~
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
~By Marcel Proust ~
Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.
~By Edwin A. Robinson ~
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
We must do all we can to empower parents and communities to protect our youth and to encourage healthy behavior free from binge drinking and other forms of alcohol abuse.
~By Jon Corzine ~
For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens, our youth.
~By Eric Anderson ~
I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.
~By Brian Ferneyhough ~
However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.
~By Julian Clary ~
If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.
~By Robert Lowell ~
My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
This is going to sound strange, but I really didn't think I would pass 30. I don't know why or whatever, I just didn't. That's a very weird thing to say, I'm sorry. I don't know. Maybe it's because I was drinking so much as a youth.
~By Kristin Davis ~
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
My life has ever been devoted to her service from my youth up, though never before in a cause like this - a cause for which I would most cheerfully risk and lay down my life.
~By David Wooster ~
Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!
~By Peter Cushing ~
Youth has no age.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
~By Rufus Choate ~
The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
~By Carl Jung ~
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.
~By Jon English ~
There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.
~By Kiefer Sutherland ~
Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.
~By Kurt Loder ~
I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.
~By Chiwetel Ejiofor ~
There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.
~By Elliott Gould ~
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!
~By Charles Dickens ~
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
~By Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach ~
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
~By Hannah More ~
Fame is the thirst of youth.
~By Lord Byron ~
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
~By Arthur Rimbaud ~
There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.
~By David O. McKay ~
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.
~By Cesare Pavese ~
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
I'm not bothered by the paparazzi and I don't feel hemmed in, I've never felt that. My youth, mind you, there wasn't quite the same attention to celebrities as there is now, but I've never felt that.
~By Albert Finney ~
A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
~By Robert Browning Hamilton ~
To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
~By Major Taylor ~
I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth.
~By Jason Bateman ~
That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.
~By Willie Stargell ~
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
~By Euripides ~
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
~By Sara Teasdale ~
I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself.
~By Bill Forsyth ~
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.
~By Rollo May ~
Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.
~By George Borrow ~
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
~By Margaret Atwood ~
The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
~By J. M. Coetzee ~
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.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!
~By Edwin Markham ~
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.
~By Edward Moore ~
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.
~By Jessamyn West ~
I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.
~By Major Taylor ~
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.
~By Samuel Butler ~
There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.
~By Salma Hayek ~
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.
~By Kim Jong Il ~
Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair.
~By Abu Bakr ~
Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.
~By Donald G. Mitchell ~
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
~By Euripides ~
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
~By William Shakespeare ~
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