Quotes about youth
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When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
George MacDonald1824–1905Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 624
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Dawn of Day (1881), § 297A boy’s will is the wind’s will,
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882My Lost Youth, refrain (1858), quoting Olaus Sirma
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Letter to Johann Kaspar Lavatar (6 March 1780)Our youth we can have but to-day,
We may always find time to grow old.
George Berkeley1685–1753Can Love be controlled by Advice?, reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).We must be very careful when we give advice to younger people: sometimes they follow it!
EDEdsger W. Dijkstra1930–2002The Humble Programmer (1972)Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Cymbeline (1610), Act IV, scene ii.The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900A Woman of No Importance (1893)
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Victory: An Island Tale, part IV, Ch. 14
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Love Among the Artists (1900)
Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988Methuselah’s Children (1958)
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Ch. XXVIIBlessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
Herbert Hoover1874–1964Address to the Nebraska Republican Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska (16 January 1936)There is an old age which has more youth of heart than youth itself!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton1803–1873Alice, or The Mysteries (1838), Book V, Chapter I
