“The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.”
“Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.”
“Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.”
“Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.”
“A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.”
“Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.”
“The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.”
“Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.”
“Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.”
“Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?”
“Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...”
“Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.”
“As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.”
“The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.”
“Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.”
“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
“Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.”
“I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.”
“Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.”
“Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.”
“Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.”
“In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.”
“I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.”
“There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going.”
“Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.”
“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.”
“The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.”
“Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.”
“Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.”
“All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.”