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The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted
on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet
and they are growing.
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an
excuse for indolence.
Benjamin Haydon
Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
Diogenes Laertius
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions
are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited,
they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less
intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the
future.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those
who think alike than those who think differently.
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself
everything, is forgiven nothing.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims
for Revolutionists"
Irish Proverb
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget
what it was to be young.
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after
another to find his own.
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up
early, or be respectable.
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young
and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's
going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.