Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don’t buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.

Genius, when young, is divine.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

I’m just a kid – I’ve got a lot of stuff to do yet.

I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.

The Make in India campaign has taken off and is backed with skill development. It is going to open new vistas for employment for the youth.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

Children are all foreigners.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Youth is wasted on the young.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

Adults are obsolete children.

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don’t know the plot. They don’t know their own individual plot… they don’t know what’s going to happen to them.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.