Youth

(25 votes)   No man knows he is young while he is young.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(228 votes)   Ask the young. They know everything.

Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist

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(209 votes)   They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(208 votes)   The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist

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(182 votes)   Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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(177 votes)   Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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(169 votes)   A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.

Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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(164 votes)   Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer

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(162 votes)   When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Josh Billings
1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer

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(161 votes)   The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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(151 votes)   The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Pearl S. Buck
1892-1973, American Novelist

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(136 votes)   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 T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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(133 votes)   The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Henry Miller
1891-1980, American Author

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(128 votes)   Youth holds no society with grief.

Euripides
BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet

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(128 votes)   Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Samuel Ullman
1840-1924, German-born American Educator, Writer, Poet

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