When you’re young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that’s the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you’re a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.
George Clooney | Youth, Aging
There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.
Oscar Wilde – Youth, England
Those whom the gods love grow young.
Oscar Wilde – God, Youth
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
Goethe – Youth, Society
Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exist for his sake.
Goethe – Youth
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw – Youth
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
George Bernard Shaw – Youth, Forgiveness
A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.
Cicero – Youth
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Cicero – Youth, Old Age
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 – Youth
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
Aristotle – Youth
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Marcus Tulius Cicero – Youth
Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And Constancy lives in realms above; And Life is thorny; and Youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
