young quotes

“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

“When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“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

“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

“The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.”

— Victor Hugo

“Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. ”

— Victor Hugo

“I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.”

— Robert Redford

“What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story.”

— Robert Redford

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

— Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“It can be hard in this business, especially when you're very young, to figure out who you can and can't trust.”

— Christina Aguilera

“When you're young, it's so easy to get bull-dozed. ”

— Christina Aguilera

“These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess. ”

— Kobe Bryant

“This young century will be liberty's century. ”

— George Washington Bush

“If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it." ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.”

— Mick Jagger