best quotations about
Youth |
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Quotations
 | Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 55 likes |
 | Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 6 likes |
 | The only problem with the youth of today is that we are no longer part of it. — Salvador Dali, 1904-1989, Spanish painter 6 likes |
 | Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 6 likes |
| The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind: they will both fall into the ditch. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 6 likes |
 | Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others. — Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946 5 likes |
 | I ‘ve always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 1884-1980, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt 5 likes |
 | I’m not young enough to know everything. — James Barrie, 1860-1937, English writer 4 likes |
 | Youth is wasted on the young. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 3 likes |
 | How strange that the young should always think the world is against them when in fact that is the only time it is for them. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 3 likes |
 | It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 3 likes |
 | You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind. — Timothy Leary, 1920-1996, American psychologist 3 likes |
 | We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. — Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945, American President [1936-1945] 3 likes |
 | I would like to die young as late as possible. — Marcel Prevost, 1862-1941, French writer 3 likes |
 | The advice of adults to young people is aimed at how to make them stop behaving like young people. — Francis De Croisset, 1877-1937, Belgian writer 3 likes |
 | You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. — Dave Barry, 1947-, American journalist 3 likes |
 | Youth has no age. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 2 likes |
 | No one understands the word “youth” before his thirties. — Jean Dutourd, 1920-2011, French writer 2 likes |
| It takes a long time to become young. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 2 likes |
| Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 2 likes |
 | My son is 22 years old. If he had not become a Communist at 22, I would have disowned him. If he is still a Communist at 30, I will do it then. — Georges Clemenceau, 1841-1929, French Prime Minister 2 likes |
 | Among other things, being young means you haven’t lost them all yet. — Michel Tournier, 1924-2016, French writer 2 likes |
 | Youthfulness is about how you live, not when you were born. — Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer 2 likes |
 | Youth is the time when hearts are large. |
 | The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth. |
 | Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. |
 | You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1830-1916, German author of maxims |
 | Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it. |
 | At twenty, the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many. |
 | If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon. |
 | Youth attracts demagogues like honey attracts flies. |
| Between 18 and 20, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing. |
 | No young man believes he shall ever die. |
 | The greatest power in the world is the youth and beauty of women. |
 | Youth is wholly experimental. |
 | Youth: time of failures. |
 | War loves to seek its victims in the young. |
 | Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child. |
| The Greeks – who knew everything – knew that immortality without youth was to be feared rather than desired. |
| Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance. |
 | Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect. |
 | It was only in my forties that I started feeling young. |
 | If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat – in other words, turn you into an adult. |
 | Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back. |
| I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be. |
 | Everyone in Italy is 20 years old, including me. |
Funny Quotes
 | – Youth unemployment has increased. – What the hell, don't they ever get old? — Altan, 1942-, Italian comics artist & satirist 2 likes |
