Young Quotes: Inspiring Words for the Youthful Spirit (Page 3)

"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future"

Sophocles, Author

"Those whom the gods love grow young"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old"

Mark Twain, Author

"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Youth is wasted on the young"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"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"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"The idea is to die young as late as possible"

Ashley Montagu, Scientist

"Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young"

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

"The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young"

Willa Cather, Author

"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"America is a young country with an old mentality"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old"

Robert Frost, Poet

"Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women"

Henry James, Writer

"Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"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"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed"

John F. Kennedy, President

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