Learn Through Quotations

“Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.”

“Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.”

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”

“A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.”

“The heart that loves is always young.”

“Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.”

“As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.”

“Someone says, Boys will be boys, he forgot to add, Boys will be men.”

“Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.”

“Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.”

“It gives me a headache to think about that stuff. I'm just a kid. I don't need that kind of trouble.”

“Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.”

“You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.”

“The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.”

“One of the best things in the world to be is a boy, it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.”

“Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.”

“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”

“Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.”

“In youth we learn; in age we understand.”

“I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”

“Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.”

“The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.”

“Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.”

“The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: hence proceeds mawkishness. ”