Quotes with youth

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• Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

  Coco Chanel
  French couturier (1883 - 1971)
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• Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

  Carey Williams
   
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• Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

  Euripides
  Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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• Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

  Garson Kanin
   
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• Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  English writer (1874 - 1936)
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• Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

  Anne Bradstreet
  English American poet (1612 - 1672)
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• Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

  Benjamin Disraeli
  English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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• Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

  Christian Nevell Bovee
  American writer
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• Youth is wasted on the young.

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

  Published in Oregonian newspaper on 31 December 1958, in the Column of Vaughan

  Bill Vaughan
  American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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• Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

  Lawana Blackwell
  English writer
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• Youth itself is a talent - a perishable talent.

  Eric Hoffer
  American writer (1902 - 1983)
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• Youth should be a savings bank.

  Anne Sophie Swetchine
  Russian writer (1782 - 1857)
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• Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

  Thomas Gray
  British poet (1716 - 1771)
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• 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.

  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined.

  Hitopadesa
  Indian text in Sanskrit
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• Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

  Walt Whitman
  American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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• Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

  Sir John Denham
  Anglo-Irish poet and courtier (1615 - 1669)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• inexperience
• middle-aged
• lumber-room
• fascination
• perishable
• beginnings

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