Youth Quotes - Page 5

• Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Teenage, Philosophical

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• Youth holds no society with grief.

  Euripides

  Time, Grief

  Euripides (1808). “The Tragedies of Euripides”, p.173

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• Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Family, Home

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• It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Philosophical, Able

  "Personal quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Preventing the conflicts of tomorrow means changing the mind-set of youth today.

  Graca Machel

  Mean, Mind, Today

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• Ask the young. They know everything.

  Joseph Joubert

  Time, Children, Humorous

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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  Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Family

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Long, Shapes

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. ILLUSTRATED. : Illustrated by True Williams (Mobi Classics)”, p.82, MobileReference

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• Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Time, Maturity, Insightful

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• In these last few days, we were close because we were both mortal men. We saw the same sun and the same twilight, we felt the same pull of the earth beneath our feet. We drank together and broke bread together. We might have made love together, if you had only allowed such a thing. But that’s all changed. You have your youth, yes, and all the dizzying wonder that accompanies the miracle. But I still see death when I look at you. I know now I cannot be your companion, and you cannot be mine

  Anne Rice

  Twilight, Men, Feet

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• 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

  Love, Heart, Men

  "Youth" (1902)

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• They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things - and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning - all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything - they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

  Aristotle

  Love, Hate, Mistake

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• Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Educational, Philosophy, Believe

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1976). “Faust: a tragedy : backgrounds and sources, the author on the drama, contemporary reactions, modern criticism”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• To be young was very heaven!

  William Wordsworth

  Heaven, Young, Be Young

  "The French Revolution, as It Appeared to Enthusiasts" l. 4 (1809). The same lines appear in Wordsworth's The Prelude, bk. 9, l. 108 (1850).

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• Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

  Samuel Ullman

  Life, Determination, Spring

  "Youth". Essay by Samuel Ullman, www.beliefnet.com. 1920.

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• 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.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Time, Suffering, Age

  'Sybil' (1845) bk. 6, ch. 13

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• A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Time, Men

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [258]

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• Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

  Walt Whitman

  Time, Grace, Lust

  1881 Leaves of Grass, 'Youth, Day, Old Age and Night', stanza 1.

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• Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Time, Madness

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more

  Joseph Conrad

  Feelings, Remember, Deceitful

  "Youth" (1902)

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• Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Birthday, Time, Regret

  'Coningsby' (1844) bk. 3, ch. 1

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• The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Years, Lasts, Firsts

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Jean de La Bruyère, 1895.

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• I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

  Margaret Atwood

  People, Joy, Understanding

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Dancing Girls”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.

  Margaret Mead

  Funny, Trust, Children

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• In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.

  Henry Suso

  Voice, Saws, Firsts

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