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When they tell me I’m too old to do something, I attempt it immediately.
Pablo Picasso1881–1973
The path to youth takes a whole life.
Pablo Picasso1881–1973
- Youth
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
Plato429–349 BCThe RepublicIn context
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
Plato429–349 BCThe Laws (Plato’s last and longest dialogue)
- Youth
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea:
But we loved with a love that was more than love⁠—
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849Annabel Lee (1849)In context
- Love
- Youth
Some old men, by continually praising the time of their youth, would almost persuade us that there were no fools in those days; but unluckily they are left themselves for examples.
Alexander Pope1688–1744Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
- Clever Jabs
Bestow therefore thy youth so, that thou mayest have comfort to remember it when it hath forsaken thee, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.
Walter Raleigh1552–1618Instructions to his Son and to Posterity (published 1632), Chapter II
- Advice
- Youth
As you get older, all those dumb clichés, they’re all true. You only have a certain amount of time left, and you should only spend it doing the things that you want to do.
Rob Reiner1947–2025“Rob Reiner on his favorite films, and why he changed the ending of ‘When Harry Met Sally…’”, A.V. Club (September 3, 2016).
- Time
We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.
Erich Maria Remarque1898–1970All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Chapter VIn context
- War & Peace
- Youth
You can only hold your stomach in for so many years.
Burt Reynolds1936–2018Attributed to Reynolds in: Orange Coast Magazine, Oct. 1984. p. 143
- Comedy
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
- Beauty
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
- Virtue
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
Patrick Rothfussborn 1973The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 12, “Puzzle Pieces Fitting” (p. 88)
- Children
- Youth
I find that the whiter my hair becomes the more ready people are to believe what I say.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind (1960), p. 80