The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
—Friedrich von Schiller
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
—George Bernard Shaw
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
—Henri Estienne
If youth only knew: if age only could.
—Herbert Henry Asquith
Praise youth and it will prosper.
—J. K. Rowling
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.
—J. K. Rowling
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
—J. M. Barrie
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
—Jonathan Swift
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
There's nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
—Oscar Wilde
I am not young enough to know everything.
—Oscar Wilde
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
—P. G. Wodehouse
Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
—Jack London
The first years of man must make provision for the last.
—Samuel Johnson in The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
—Mark Twain