Youth Quotes

“When I was one – and – twenty
I heard a wise man say,
‘Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away.”
– A.E. Housman
Book of Quotations # 441

“Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth.”
– Old Testament

“O youth with song and laughter,
Go not so lightly by.
Have pity – and remember
How soon thy roses die.”
– A.W. Peach

“We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow:
Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.”
– Pope

“Youth is looking for new answers – so they can question them.”
– Walt Kelly

“Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.”
– Southey

“The days of our youth are the days of our glory.”
– Lord Byron

“How beautiful is youth! how bright it
With its illusions, aspirations, dreams …”
– Longfellow

“Ah! Happy years! Once more who would not be a boy!”
– Byron

“Youth comes but once in a lifetime.”
– Longfellow

“There is a feeling of eternity in youth,
To be young is to be one of the immortal gods.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

“Youth, even in its sorrows, has a brilliance of its own.”
– Victor Hugo

“Rule youth well, for age will rule itself.”
– Scottish Proverb

“Flaming youth has become a flaming question. And youth comes to us wanting to know what we may propose to do about a society that hurts so many of them.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt