I am not young enough to know everything.
When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one’s hands full just to be able to remove their trash.
When you’re young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you’re laughing again.
Those whom the gods love grow young.
The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality.
It takes a very long time to become young.
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
If you liked being a teenager, there’s something really wrong with you.
If only the old and young could be the same age.
I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in for shoplifting and pulling girls’ knickers down. Other boys’ parents hated me. Most of the masters hated me.
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.