Youth lives on hope, old age on memories. – Proverb
If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength. – Proverb
All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, thats now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by. – Conrad Aiken
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. – Aristotle
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth. – Natalie Clifford Barney
Im youth, Im joy, Im a little bird that has broken out of the egg. – James Barrie
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around. – Georges Bernanos
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. Ecclesiastes 11:9 – Bible
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Lamentations 3:27 – Bible
Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. – Ambrose Bierce
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
Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18. – Jim Bishop
But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell. – Louise Bogan
Im trying very hard to understand this generation. They have adjusted the timetable for childbearing so that menopause and teaching a sixteen-year-old how to drive a car will occur in the same week. – Erma Bombeck
Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron
Todays younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us. – Al Capp
