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Youth Quotes - Page 14

Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.

Frank Herbert (1985). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, Putnam Publishing Group

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.3529, e-artnow

She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.'

"‘Ready Player One’: An Interview with Author Ernest Cline". Interview with Rebecca Serle, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2011.

Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.

Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.

David Rakoff (2002). “Fraud: Essays”, p.30, Anchor

Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.

C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth.

Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.32, Booklassic

Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.

"Poor Richard's Almanack" by Benjamin Franklin, 1736.

I can now say without hesitation the Marine Corps was the best foster home I ever had.

Art Buchwald (1994). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Thorndike Pr

Youth condemns; maturity condones

Amy Lowell (1931). “Tendencies in Modern American Poetry”, p.60, Ardent Media