Youth Quotes

"Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret." ~ Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli Hilary was no young person, like his niece or Martin, to whom everything seemed simple; nor was he an old person like their grandfather, for whom life had lost its complications. ~ Fraternity by John Galsworthy "The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. It's only the middle-aged who are really conscious of their limitations--that is why one should be so patient with them." ~ Reginald by Saki She and Stephen were in that stage of courtship which makes the most exquisite moment of youth, the freshest blossom-time of passion,--when each is sure of the other's love, but no formal declaration has been made, and all is mutual divination, exalting the most trivial word, the lightest gesture, into thrills delicate and delicious as wafted jasmine scent. ~ The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,
When thought is speech, and speech is truth. ~ Marmion by Sir Walter Scott In the rotation of crops there was a recognised season for wild oats; but they were not to be sown more than once. ~ The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations of every natural act. ~ Penrod by Booth Tarkington Thirteen is embarrassed by the beginnings of a new colthood; the child becomes a youth. But twelve is the very top of boyhood. ~ Penrod by Booth Tarkington Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium. ~ Penrod by Booth Tarkington If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us. ~ Middlemarch by George Eliot