Youth Quotes

Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.

Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick,
Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.

Youth is the time when hearts are large.

Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don’t. They just want the fun of eating it all over again.

Youth is like a fickle girlfriend. We can’t understand or value her until she goes off with someone else, never to return…

Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young…

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

We should instruct youth with good humour, reprove its failings with great gentleness, and not make it afraid of the name of virtue.[Qu’il nous faut en riant instruire la jeunesse, Reprendre ses défauts avec grande douceur, Et du nom de vertu ne lui point faire peur.]

We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them…

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.