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Youth Quotes by Mark Twain
- I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed…
- In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like…
- Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.
- When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it,…
- I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be…
- George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
- When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
- There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
- Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at…
- Life should begin with age and it's privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and it's capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
- But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.
- What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back the burden of…
- It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in…
- I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend…
More Youth Quotes
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle
- Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
- What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
- Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming… — Jane Austen
- The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. — Richard Bach