Youthful Quotes (page 5)

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• waste
• wasting
• wastefulness

Youth is wasted on the young. George Bernard Shaw

• age
• art
• nature

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. Stanislaw Lec

• time
• age
• old age

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. Anne Bradstreet

• dog
• will
• been

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one. George Borrow

• old
• thinking
• age

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

• near
• how
• sees

Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther. Edwin A. Robinson

• beauty
• beautiful
• growing old

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. Franz Kafka

• question
• old
• years

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth. Natalie Clifford Barney

• hair
• dye
• hairs

Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair. Abu Bakr

• hope
• deceiving
• quick

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. Aristotle

• energy
• leader
• musicians

The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning. Roy Haynes

• die
• life
• mind

The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth - all save this come and go with us through life...These things are a part of life itself; but languor - the relaxation of yet unwearied sinews, the mind sequestered and self-regarding, the sun standing still in the heavens and the earth throbbing to our own pulse - that belongs to Youth alone... Evelyn Waugh

• life
• challenge
• affection

Revolution and youth are closely allied. What can a revolution promise to adults? To some it brings disgrace, to others favor. But even that favor is questionable, for it affects only the worse half of life, and in addition to advantages it also entails uncertainty, exhausting activity and upheaval of settled habits. Youth is substantially better off: it is not burdened by guilt, and the revolution can accept young people in toto. The uncertainty of revolutionary times is an advantage for... Milan Kundera

• alone
• children
• may

Educationalists who think they can understand the young are enthusiasts. Youth does not want to be understood; it wants only to be let alone. It preserves itself immune against the insidious bacillus of being understood. The grown-up who would approach it too importunately is as ridiculous in its eyes as if he had put on children's clothes. We may feel with our youth, but youth does not feel with us. That is its salvation. Erich Maria Remarque

• forever
• she
• water

Comprehending at one bound the myth of Demeter and knowing that she was Demeter, that the fountain between her thighs was my own youth and I Persephone, who had come to her in spring and would come forever, for she was my youth, older than I and yet my youth, my ever-recurrent spring, and spring itself only a metaphor for the source, the waters, the hidden river, the tunnel of life between her thighs. Kate Millett