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| In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl' | | Tom Lehrer | |
| In youth, everything seems possible; but we reach a point in the middle years when we realize that we are never going to reach all the shining goals we had set for ourselves, with what grace we can, to living with our ulcers and arthritis, our sense | | Adlai E. Stevenson | |
| Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. | | Jonathan Swift | |
| It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth. | | Vincent van Gogh | |
| It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth | | Bible | |
| It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. | | Maya Angelou | |
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| Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth | | Walter Scott | |
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| Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages. | | Michel de Montaigne | |
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| Maybe it was the sideburns, but I just didnt fit in. (Elvis speaking about his youth) | | Elvis Presley | |
| Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years | | Charlotte Bronte | |
| Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or very foolish imagine otherwise | | George Orwell | |
| Neither one should hesitate about dedicating oneself to philosophy when young, nor should get tired of doing it when one's old, because no one is ever too young or too old to reach one's soul's healthy. | | Epicurus | |
| Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world. | | Eric Hoffer | |
| People grow old only by deserting their ideals, Macarthur had written. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away. | | Douglas MacArthur | |
| Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. | | Titus Maccius Plautus | |
