Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw

  Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
John W. Gardner

  As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
Franz Grillparzer

  Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka

  Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
Benjamin Disraeli

  Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
Euripides

  Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
Cyril Connolly

  Young people need models, not critics.
John Wooden

  What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
Robert Browning

  Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  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

  Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair.
The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.
Luella F. Phean

  Youth has no age.
Pablo Picasso

  Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Francis Bacon

  Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
1 Timothy 4:12

  Young men, follow the lead of those who are older. All of you, put on a spirit that is free of pride toward each other as if it were your clothes.
1 Peter 5:5

  The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
Alfred North Whitehead

  All lovely things will have an ending,
All lovely things will fade and die,
And youth, that's now so bravely spending,
Will beg a penny by and by.
Conrad Aiken

  Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
Frank Lloyd Wright

  Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

  You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.
Joe Lewis

  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.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

  Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
Anita Brookner

  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

  Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

  The fountain of youth, if you want to coin that phrase, because it sort of gives the entire area a chance for rebirth.
Joel Holley

  There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.
Jessamyn West

  Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded upon a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
William Lyon Phelps

  Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
Henry Brooks Adams