Young quotes

“How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?” Lois McMaster Bujold

“The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.” Salvador Dali

“All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that makes him different from other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put it all in the same mold, but I say don't let that spark be lost; it is your only real claim to importance.” Henry Ford

“I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.” Socrates

“Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.” Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.” Mark Twain

“When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.” Mark Twain

“Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.” Benjamin Franklin

“Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones, the difference is only in the price.” Benjamin Franklin

“I am not young enough to know everything.” Oscar Wilde

“The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.” Oscar Wilde

“It takes a long time to become young.” Pablo Picasso

“I pay very little regarding to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.” Jane Austen

“But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.” Jane Austen

“Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.” Andre Gide

“Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.” Sigmund Freud

“The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.” John Barrymore

“The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.” Abraham Lincoln

“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.” Coco Chanel

“Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.” Coco Chanel

“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.” Aristotle

“It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.” Aristotle

“The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.” Aristotle

“The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.” Stendhal

“A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.” Honore de Balzac

“True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.” Honore de Balzac

“Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.” Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.” Sophocles

“I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.” Victor Hugo