1,743 Quotes About Youth

He has existed only, not lived, who lacks wisdom in old age.

Youth is wholly experimental.

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.

To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.

The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.

Young people ought not to be idle, it is very bad for them.

I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them.

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

At 25, you've got millions of brain cells to kill.