“What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.”
“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.”
“Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.”
“There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.”
“Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight”
“Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.”
“Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”
“It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.”
“Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.”
“Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.”
“Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.”
“The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.”
“Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.”
“Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.”
“Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.”
“A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.”
“Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.”
“The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.”
“Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.”
“Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?”
“Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...”
“Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.”
“As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.”
“The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.”
“Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.”
“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
“Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.”
“I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.”
“Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.”
“I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.”