Quotes About Youth

To get back one’s youth one has merely to repeat one’s follies.

— Oscar Wilde

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

— Cyril Connolly

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth.

— Ecclesiastes 11:9

I am not young enough to know everything.

— James M. Barrie

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

— Robert Southey

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

— Lord Asquith

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Youth is like spring, an overpraised season.

— Samuel Butler

Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

— George Chapman

My salad days, when I was green in judgment, cold in blood...

— William Shakespeare

The young are in a state like intoxication, for youth is sweet and they are growing.

— Aristotle

In fact, there’s nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and the truth.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Happiness, like youth and health, is rarely appreciated until it is past.

— Marguerite, Countess of Blessington