youth Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about youth.
“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.”
- Aristotle
“Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.”
- Victor Hugo
“A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.”
- Maurice Chevalier
“Age considers youth ventures.”
- Rabindranath Tagore
“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.”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
“It takes a long time to become young.”
- Pablo Picasso
“Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.”
- Hosea Ballou
“There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later.”
- Mignon McLaughlin
“One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.”
- William Feather
“In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.”
- Pope Paul VI