Best Youth Proverbs
2574 Youth quotes by 1589 unique authors
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The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other…
— George Washington
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The minds of youth are perpetually led to the history of Greece and Rime or to Great Britain; Boys are constantly repeating the declamations of…
— Noah Webster
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To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had…
— Benjamin Rush
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I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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God's love does not distinguish between the infant in the mother's womb or the child or the youth or the adult or the older person.…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements pall with frequent…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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A perpetual conflict with natural desires seems to be the lot of our present state. In youth we require something of the tardiness and frigidity…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Such is the condition of life that something is always wanting to happiness. In youth we have warm hopes, which are soon blasted by rashness…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance…
— George Santayana
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By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
— Democritus
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How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come;…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth,…
— Thomas Gray
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In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.
— William Shakespeare
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You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don't hold onto the old man, the world; don't…
— Saint Augustine
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"Some of the anxiety has been laid to rest. We don't see a spike in adult use. We don't think we see a spike in…
— John Hickenlooper
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Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The first time around…
— Eda LeShan
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Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Tears fell from my eyes - yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that…
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.
— Sophie Swetchine
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I'll be one year younger having missed my birthday and my mirror confirms it; so what's wrong with that.
— Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire
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