Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. George Bernard Shaw
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. Herbert Asquith
Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted. Andre Malraux
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. Alfred North Whitehead
Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to. Bill Vaughan
I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own. Margaret Atwood
A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colours would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age. Wyndham Lewis
In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears. Joseph Roux
Don’t laugh at a youth for his affectations; he’s only trying on one face after another till he finds his own. Logan Pearsall Smith
When I had youth I had no money; now I have the money I have no time; and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life. Louisa May Alcott
One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common – discontent. Matthew Arnold
Man’s own youth is the world’s youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth’s granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes. Nathaniel Hawthorne