One thing you have to teach the young is that it’s wrong to run away from problems.
Youth Quotes
Shakespeare leads, then Byron, Longfellow, Charles Sheffield and Randolph Bourne. For sourced lines, Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary (1911) defines youth as the period of possibility. Shaw’s Maxims for Revolutionists (1903) has youth forgiven everything and forgiving itself nothing, age forgiving itself everything and forgiven nothing.
The two famous complaints about the young are both flagged. “The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority” is credited to Socrates and marked misattributed. The notes quote a reference book of 1989 saying the quotation is spurious and mention that similar sentiments occur in Aristophanes’ The Clouds. The one credited to Hesiod, about having no hope for the future of our people, is disputed.
When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you.
To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy.
Our policies in favor of young people will continue with force and vigor during the next mandate.
O memory, where is now my youth,
Who used to say that life was truth?
As our sages have said, youth builds a universe with self at the center.
He was still young enough to hate looking like a fool more than anything in the world.
I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.