Youth Quotes

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. -Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development. -Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884 - 1980)

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.
Anne Rice (1941 - ), "Tale of the Body Thief"

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing. -Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), 'Nicomachean Ethics'

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence. -Benjamin Haydon

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it. -Coco Chanel (1883 - 1971)

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. -Dave Barry (1947 - )

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. -Diogenes Laertius

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life. -Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen? -Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. -Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)

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. -Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Dawn, Sec. 297

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. -Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. -George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing. -George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"

If youth only knew: if age only could. -Henri Estienne (1470 - 1520)

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. -Herbert Henry Asquith (1852 - 1928)

Praise youth and it will prosper. -Irish Proverb

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth. -J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. -J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. -James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)

No wise man ever wished to be younger. -Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be. -Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own. -Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)

In youth we learn; in age we understand. -Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

There's nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth. -Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Deacon's Masterpiece, 1858

I am not young enough to know everything. -Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. -Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious. -P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), Uneasy Money

In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation. -Roger Allen

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. -Sidney J. Harris

There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about it. -Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us. -W. H. Thompson

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. -W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. -Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)

We have some salt of our youth in us. -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 2 scene 3

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anger quotes

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
Babylonian Talmud, tractate Gittin

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
Cherie Carter-Scott, "If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules"
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603), in Francis Bacon, Apophthegms, 1625
Anger as soon as fed is dead-
'Tis starving makes it fat.
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), Poems, Second Series, 1891
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.
Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Greg Evans, Luann (comic), September 27, 2003
Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger, 1985
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
Mario Puzo (1920 - 1999), 'The Godfather'
I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.
Maxine Waters, in Brian Lanker, I Dream a World, 1989

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