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Ben Lindsey Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.
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Bible It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Lamentations 3:27
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Carl Jung The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
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Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) 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.
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Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) The chief recommendation [in a young man] is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred. [Lat., Prima commendiato proficiscitur a modestia tum pietate in parentes, tum in suos benevolentia.]
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Claudian (Claudianus) Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth. [Lat., Teneris, heu, lubrica moribus aetas!]
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Conrad Aiken All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.
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Dame Mary Gilmore Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.
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Euripides Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
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Francis Bacon Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business.
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Francis Bacon Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
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Franz Kafka Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Hafiz On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.
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Helen Keller It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
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