Young Quotes

"America is a young country with an old mentality"

George Santayana, Philosopher

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

Willa Cather, Author

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

Robert Frost, Poet

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

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"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

"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

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

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"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

"But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one"

Mae West, Actress

"When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

"There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

"I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing"

Maya Angelou, Poet

"It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength"

Maya Angelou, Poet

"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"You can be young without money but you can't be old without it"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"Old and young disbelieve one another's truths"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

"There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions"

Jane Austen, Writer

"Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of"

Jane Austen, Writer

"Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise"

George Orwell, Author

"A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly"

Thomas Hardy, Novelist

"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old"

Martin Luther, Professor

"A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all"

Jean Genet, Dramatist

"You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

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