Youth Quotes - Page 11

• The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

  Aristotle

  Time, Philosophical, States

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Age, Ornaments

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.

  William Shakespeare

  Sports, Time, Age

  William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.256, Cambridge University Press

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• Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent who nursed him; to the fond wife or child mayhap afterwards who loves him; to himself always and supremely--whatever may be his actual prosperity or ill fortune, his present age, illness, difficulties, renown, or disappointments--the dawn of his life still shines brightly for him, the early griefs and delights and attachments remain with him ever faithful and dear.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Children, Disappointment, Grief

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• For youth, everything is sport.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Sports

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• Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth.

  Aeschylus

  Age, Stronger, Old Age

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.342

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• Your youth is the most important thing you will ever have. It's when you will connect to music like a primal urge, and the memories attached to the songs will never leave you. Please hold on to everything. Keep every note, mix tape, concert ticket stub, and memory you have of music from your youth. It'll be the one thing that might keep you young, even if you aren't anymore.

  Butch Walker

  Song, Memories, Important

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• place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self?he returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment, escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.

  Confucius

  Spiritual, Children, Real

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• In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Wisdom, Writing, Men

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1872). “The Snow-image, and Other Twice-told Tales”, p.10

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• Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth.

  William Banting

  Believe, Men, Enemy

  William Banting (2005). “Letter on Corpulence”, p.46, Cosimo, Inc.

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• May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few thousand airmen? There never has been, I suppose, in all the world, in all the history of war, such an opportunity for youth. The Knights of the Round Table, the Crusaders, all fall back into the past.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Fall, Past

  Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1965). “Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words”

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• For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.

  William Banting

  Horse, Illustration, Ordinary

  William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.17

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• Politicians step up and say, "This is what were going to do: we're going to set aside 450 million dollars for a mentorship program for orphaned youth," and so on and so forth, and it sounds great in this romanticized vision of what these alleged leaders are going to do for the alleged meek. But it doesn't examine: why are these kids orphans?

  Mr. Lif

  Kids, Leader, Vision

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• To my son Hugh, in return for the care and sorrow he has caused me all the days of his life, for his dissolute career and his desertion, I do give and bequeath the sum of one thousand dollars and the memory of his misspent youth.

  Hallie Erminie Rives

  Memories, Son, Careers

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• People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture.

  Charlaine Harris

  People, Culture, Plastic

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• I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion.

  Stephen Spender

  Struggle, Writing, Confusion

  "Journals 1939-1983". Book by Stephen Spender, 1986.

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• Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.

  Huey Newton

  Jobs, School, Glamorous

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• I should never conclude were I to speak to you of all the misfortunes which have their origin in the faulty carriage of the body. All these defects, mortifying for those who have contracted them, cannot be remedied except in their early stages. A habit born in childhood is strengthened in youth, becomes deeply rooted in adulthood and is incurable in old age.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Childhood, Ballet, Age

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• To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.

  John Milton

  Dancing, Ballet, Maids

  John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton”, p.407

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• Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Oil, Childhood, Age

  "Oil USA". Book by Thomas Chi, p. 7, December 1, 2011.

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• Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Believe, Age, Looks

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• Look at the evils of the world around you and protect yourself from them. Our teachers give all the wrong messages to our youth, since they take away the natural flare from the soul. Take it from me that all knowledge is useless until it is connected with your life, because the purpose of knowledge is nothing but to show you the splendors of yourself!

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Teacher, Evil, Giving

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• This Christmas mend a quarrel. Seek out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a letter. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth. Manifest your loyalty in word and deed. Keep a promise. Forgo a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Apologize. Try to understand. Examine your demands on others. Think first of someone else. Be kind. Be gentle. Laugh a little more. Express your gratitude. Welcome a stranger. Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth. Speak your love, and then speak it again.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Love, Loyalty, Gratitude

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• Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning.

  Christine de Pizan

  Children, Pain, Lying

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• In my youth, I spent my time investigating insects.

  Maria Sibylla Merian

  Insects, My Time, Investigating

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