Quotes about youth
Prepared by: Dmitry Sirotkin
I present to you a selection of quotes about youth .
Alas, you appreciate youth when it has passed .
Quotes are summarized by topic: old age and youth, life and youth, age and youth, eternal youth, manifestations of youth, time and youth, happiness and youth, creativity and youth, wisdom and youth, intelligence and youth, health and youth, woman and youth , education and youth, dreams and youth, love and youth, beauty and youth, sins of youth, truth and youth, dancing and youth, travel and youth, etc.
Old age and youth
Youth ends with selfishness, old age begins with living for others. (G. Hesse)
When a person is old, he has to do more than when he was young. (I. Goethe)
If only youth knew, and old age could! (A. Etienne)
Old age has the same appetite as youth, only the teeth are different. (Magdalena the Impostor)
The only thing sadder than the sight of a young pessimist is the sight of an old optimist. (M. Twain)
In our youth we are looking for a beautiful body - over the years we are looking for a soul mate. (M. Zhvanetsky)
As one wise man noted, youth that forgives itself nothing is forgiven everything; and old age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing. (B. Shaw)
The tragedy of old age is not that you are old, but that you still consider yourself young. (O. Wilde)
Youth changes its tastes due to the ardor of feelings, but old age keeps them unchanged out of habit. (F. La Rochefoucauld)
Forty years is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. (V. Hugo)
Stinginess is a vice of old age, just as wastefulness is a vice of youth. (A. Schopenhauer)
In old age a person is better able to prevent misfortunes, and in youth he is better able to endure them. (A. Schopenhauer)
I don’t feel sorry for my youth: more beautiful than the sun of May, My golden September, your shine and silence, I’m not afraid of you, come to me, holy one, Oh, Old Age, the best spring! (D. Merezhkovsky)
I like some of the good qualities of old age in a young man, and some of the good qualities of youth in an old man. (M.T. Cicero)
There is no limit to old age, it does not exist, and the life of old people is justified as long as they can bear the burden of duty and despise death. Therefore, old age is even more courageous and stronger than youth. (M.T. Cicero)
The struggle of youth against old age is, in essence, only an imaginary struggle... Old age is the future of youth, which it must reach sooner or later. Why fight? To grow old faster? To leave quickly? (F. Kafka)
Life and youth
The longer you live, the higher the barrier of youth rises. (V. Tokareva)
The first twenty years are the longest half of life. (R. Southey)
We spend a good part of our lives weeding out what we grew in our hearts in our youth. This operation is called acquiring experience. (O. Balzac)
In life, every minute is fraught with miracle and eternal youth. (A. Camus)
While you are young, in this long deception called life, nothing seems so desperately desired as a rash step. (F. Sagan)
Youth is the spring time of a person, in which seeds are sown for future years of life. (Ya. Knyazhnin)
I really want to live: the young - because he has lived so little, the old - because he has so little left to live. (A. and B. Strugatsky)
If you are lucky and you lived in Paris in your youth, then no matter where you are later, it will remain with you until the end of your days, because Paris is a holiday that is always with you. (E. Hemingway)
From the point of view of youth, life is an endless future; from the point of view of old age, it is a very short past. (A. Schopenhauer)
Youth is a wonderful era of our existence! The heart is in the fullness of life, creating for itself a future that is dear to it; everything seems possible, everything is close. Love and glory, two idols of sensual souls, stand behind the veil in front of them and raise their hand to shower us with their gifts. (N. Karamzin)
By the way, quotes about life
Age and youth
Blessed is he who was young from his youth, Blessed is he who matured in time. (A. Pushkin)
Youth has no age. (P. Picasso)
What you sow in youth, you reap in maturity. (G. Ibsen)
I don't see anything romantic about age as such. Either you're interesting at any age or you're not. There's nothing particularly interesting about being old—or about being young. (K. Hepburn)
Youth is a great disadvantage for someone who is no longer young. (A. Dumas (father))
A young man becomes an adult when he begins to understand that adults do not exist. (J. Sesbron)
40 is the age when you finally feel young. But it's too late. (P. Picasso)
Is this normal for young people like us? already approaching forty? (G. Laub)
Youth is not a number of years, but a state of mind. (D. Enescu)
Youth thinks about the present, but mature age neglects neither the present, nor the past, nor the future. (F. Rojas)
If only good things went with youth, then the remaining ages of human life would seem so unbearable that every individual would cut his own throat in his thirty-second year. Many squabbles swim in the noisy waves of youth and sail away with them; but still there is nothing better than these waves. (I. Turgenev)
Eternal youth
No one feels how youth is leaving, but everyone feels when it is already gone. (L.A. Seneca)
Eternal youth is impossible; even if there were no other obstacle, self-observation would make it impossible. (F. Kafka)
To be young means to be late in adopting a lifestyle that is not appropriate for one’s age. (Theophrastus)
The secret of eternal youth is developmental delay. (E. Roosevelt)
Oblivion is the secret of eternal youth. We age only because of memory. We forget too little. (E.M. Remarque)
He who is truly young will always be young. (J. Clemenceau)
To regain youth, you just have to repeat all its follies. (O. Wilde)
To regain my youth, I am ready to do anything - just not get up early, not do gymnastics and not be a useful member of society. (O. Wilde)
Youth is a capricious lover: while you are learning to appreciate it, it leaves for someone else and, you know, never returns. (K.R. Saphon)
Sometimes I think that it would be easier to avoid old age and die young. But then my life would remain unfinished, wouldn't it? I would never fully recognize myself. (M. Monroe)
Manifestations of youth
The youth of conscience does not know reproaches. (W. Shakespeare)
Youth tends to sin with haste. (W. Shakespeare)
Youth is the greatest magician. (A. Pushkin)
When they are young, they do not know how to hide their feelings. (A. Maurois)
Youth dreams of fame. (D. Byron)
Youth is a time of courage. (Stendhal)
Young people don't know what they want, but they are determined to achieve it. (F. Fellini)
Youth should be anxious, ebullient, sometimes extravagant, stupid. (I. Goncharov)
That’s why youth is given to be ebullient, active, life-affirming. (M. Sholokhov)
This is youth: what is learned for the first time captures it completely, to the point of self-forgetfulness, and in its hobbies it knows no limits. (S. Zweig)
Usually, youth easily makes promises and then regrets it. (S. King)
O youth! Youth!.. Maybe the whole secret of your charm lies not in the ability to do everything, but in the ability to think that you will do everything. (I. Turgenev)
Time and youth
Youth flies quickly: seize the passing time. (Ovid)
Youth is a disadvantage that quickly passes. (I. Goethe)
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later. (G. Asquith)
You have to spend a lot of time to finally become young. (P. Picasso)
Use the current tense so that in old age you don’t reproach yourself for wasting your youth. (D. Boccaccio)
But it’s sad to think that youth was given to us in vain. (A. Pushkin)
Youth is a time of unlimited theoretical possibilities. (A. Shlomo)
If youth knew how short it is, it would be even shorter. (A. Davidovich)
Our greatest regret is the excessive and unjustified speed of time... Before you know it, your youth is fading and your eyes are dimming. Meanwhile, you have not yet seen even a hundredth part of the charm that life has scattered around. (K. Paustovsky)
By the way, quotes about time
Happiness and youth
Youth is happy because it has a future. (N. Gogol)
Happy youth is an illusion of those who have lost their youth. (S. Maugham)
What is abundantly enough for happiness in youth is no longer always enough even for pleasure. (J. Deval)
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. When this ability is lost, hopeless old age, withering, and unhappiness begin. (F. Kafka)
Youth is so happy because it knows nothing, old age is so unhappy because it knows everything. (F.R. Chateaubriand)
In old age a person is better able to prevent misfortunes, and in youth he is better able to endure them. (A. Schopenhauer)
Young happiness is always invisible. (M. Sholokhov)
By the way, quotes about happiness
Creativity and youth
Almost everything great is done by young people. (B. Disraeli)
There is no better consolation in old age than the knowledge that you managed to translate all the power of youth into creations that do not age. (A. Schopenhauer)
All creative ideas of a person, in general terms, appear already during his youth. (A. Hitler)
The service of the muses does not tolerate fuss; The beautiful should be majestic: But youth advises us slyly, And noisy dreams make us happy... (A. Pushkin)
What noble writers took from nature for nothing, commoners buy at the cost of youth. (A. Chekhov)
By the way, quotes about creativity
Wisdom and youth
With youth and beauty, wisdom manifests itself very rarely. (Homer)
From youth to old age, take wisdom as a reserve, for there is no more reliable asset. (Biant)
Young people are as likely to think themselves wise as drunk people are sober. (F. Chesterfield)
Youth is the time to acquire wisdom, old age is the time to apply it. (J.-J. Rousseau)
Buy in your youth something that over the years will compensate you for the damage caused by old age. And, realizing that wisdom is the food of old age, act in your youth so that old age is not left without food. (L. da Vinci)
By the way, quotes about wisdom
Intelligence and youth
That's not what youth is good for. which gives the opportunity to do stupid things, and what gives time to correct them. (T. Bernard)
Maturity is often stupider than youth and even more often extremely unfair to it. (T. Edison)
Young people think old people are fools; but old people know that young people are fools. (D. Chapman)
Youth thinks: why didn’t anyone think before us?, and old age thinks: after us there will be no one to think. (E. Antonyuk)
In his youth, a person conceives sublime thoughts that should later make him famous. (C. Helvetius)
By the way, quotes about the mind
Health and youth
When a person is young, it always seems to him that illness and death threaten anyone, but not him. (S. Zweig)
Why does a person spare no effort, no money, no health? For pleasure. Only in his youth is he ready to give up his health for this, in his old age is he ready to give up pleasures for his health. (V. Shukshin)
If going up stairs is no more difficult than going down, that’s youth. If going down is no easier than going up, it’s old age. (Ya. Ipokhorskaya)
Youthful pessimism is a real disease of youth. (I. Mechnikov)
Gymnastics prolongs a person’s youth. (D. Locke)
By the way, quotes about health
Woman and youth
The most harmful habit is the habit of one’s own youth. (V. Blonskaya)
Mourning youth is like mourning a beautiful woman who deceived us. (L. Stern)
Beautiful women can be very stupid in old age only because they were very beautiful in their youth. (V. Klyuchevsky)
You cannot be the husband of a beautiful woman with impunity if you do not have enough youth, wealth and generosity to give her everything that others offer. (S. Narrey)
By the way, quotes about a woman
Education and early life
Youth loves to be encouraged rather than taught. (I. Goethe)
For those who have not studied in their youth, old age can be boring. (Catherine II the Great)
In youth they learn, and in old age they understand. (M. Ebner-Eschenbach)
A young man is like wax. (D. Fonvizin)
The indifference with which cheerful youth perceives the prescriptions of pedagogy, which are contrary to the spirit of the times, is to a certain extent explained by the kind of servants of pedagogy themselves, this class of people, separated from the rest of the world by special inclinations, their own weaknesses and squalor. (K. Frelich)
By the way, quotes about education
Dreams and youth
True youth is when you still believe in the reality of some fairy-tale world. (A. Maurois)
Only those who dream of becoming older are truly young. (V. Grzeszczyk)
Human life would freeze at one point if youth did not dream, and the seeds of many great ideas ripened invisibly in the iris of youthful utopias. (K. Ushinsky)
In your youth you compare everything with your dreams, in old age - with your memories. (E. Herriot)
In old age you yearn more for the dreams of your youth than for its happiness. (M. Ebner-Eschenbach)
By the way, quotes about dreams
Love and youth
Let youth sing about love. (Propertius)
Woe to the heart that did not love from a young age! (I. Turgenev)
The first love of unspoiled youth is always aimed at the sublime. Nature seems to want one sex to sensually perceive the good and beautiful in the other. (I. Goethe)
Poetic, passionate love is the color of our life, our youth. (V. Belinsky)
Everyone's youth passes, but love is another matter. (I. Bunin)
All the girls I dated when I was young were librarians. (R. Bradbury)
By the way, quotes about love
Beauty and youth
Young people do not know well what beauty is: they only know passion. (L. Vauvenargues)
No one is young after forty, but we can be irresistible at any age. (K. Chanel)
There is the beauty of youth, and there is the beauty of old age. (I. Shevelev)
The radiant beauty of youth is diminished in its perfection by excessive and too elaborate ornaments. (L. da Vinci)
Every age has its own charms, but in youth there are also strangers. (G. Malkin)
By the way, quotes about beauty
Sins of Youth
What we sin in our youth we have to atone for in old age. (E. Rotterdamsky)
Perhaps youth is a vice, but only too quickly cured by age. (D. Lowell)
Intemperate youth passes on a worn-out body to old age. (M.T. Cicero)
Youthful vices should not be preserved until old age, because old age brings its own. (I. Goethe)
Youth judges, old age forgives sins. (K. Silva)
Truth and youth
Youth is unselfish in its thoughts and feelings, therefore it most deeply embraces the truth in thought and feeling... (G. Heine)
Youth, with its noble enthusiasm, with its vague aspirations for honesty, justice, and social truth, is one of the greatest forces of progress. (N. Shelgunov)
When we are young, we believe that fairness is the minimum we can expect from others. In adulthood, we become convinced that this is the maximum. (M. Ebner-Eschenbach)
By the way, quotes about the truth
Dancing and youth
Monotonous and crazy, Like the whirlwind of a young life, the noisy whirlwind of a waltz spins, Couple flashes by couple. (A. Pushkin)
Dancing is a great workout for girls, it is the first way to learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it. (K. Morley)
By the way, quotes about dancing
Travel and youth
The only thing that will not return is youth and the opportunity to travel around the world. (M. Druon)
In youth, travel serves to replenish one’s education; in adulthood, it serves to replenish experience. (F. Bacon)
To become men, boys must wander, always, throughout their lives, wander. (R. Bradbury)
By the way, quotes about travel
Morning and youth
For girls, morning sleep is so thin. (A. Griboyedov)
Every day is a little life: every awakening and rising is a little birth; every fresh morning is a little youth; Every preparation for bed and falling asleep is a small death. (A. Schopenhauer)
By the way, quotes about morning
Friendship and youth
The most indissoluble friendship is the one that begins in youth - inseparable and most pleasant. (N. Karamzin)
Remembering our youth is like visiting the grave of a friend whom we have offended and have no way of making amends for. (D.W. Foster)
By the way, quotes about friendship
Grief and youth
There is no grief in the world that youth cannot heal. (W. Irving)
Youth is not free to make mistakes: Without tears, grief is not clear to her, Without laughter, joy is not visible... (N. Nekrasov)
By the way, quotes about grief
Money and youth
Money, like youth, knows no barriers. (D. London)
What good is it to be a little wealthier than our neighbors if we still can't hold on to our youth? (V. Van Gogh)
By the way, quotes about money
Experience and youth
The entrepreneurship of young people is worth the experience of old people. (J. Knorr)
Inexperience is a quality that allows a young person to do what an older person considers impossible. (G. Procnow)
About miscellaneous
Hello, young, unfamiliar tribe! (A. Pushkin)
When a person is young, there are so many sorrows that a whole night of healthy sleep will not help him overcome. (F. Bret Harte)
Youth is when you are allowed to stay late to celebrate the New Year. Middle age is when you are forced to do this. (W. Vaughan)
Children and grandchildren multiply the number of problematic issues, giving their parents youth and a delay in death in return. (F. Bacon)
It seemed like he could have stood behind the counter for ages, selling sweets and orchards, while that cute creature looked at him from behind the door with friendly, mocking eyes, and the summer sun, breaking through the powerful foliage of the chestnut trees growing in front of the windows, filled the entire room. greenish gold of midday rays, midday shadows, and the heart basks in the sweet languor of laziness, carelessness and youth - original youth! (I. Turgenev)
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Proverbs about youth
Proverbs and sayings about youth: childhood, adolescence, adolescence
Proverbs and sayings depict a person in his young years of life. They outline the relationship between children and parents, describe youth from different sides: fun festivities, idle pastime and learning to read and write, helping elders. In youth, habits and character are established that will affect a person’s destiny in the future. And a person in his youth must understand whether it is worth respecting his parents, taking care of his honor, going for walks, studying.
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- Without a mother, the sun does not warm.
- Without a queen and a bee - lost children.
- Without a father, a child is half an orphan; without a mother, a child is a complete orphan.
- Take care of your dress again, and take care of your honor from a young age.
- Be not only the son of your father, but also of your people.
- On the road, father is friend to son.
- In your youth, like in a flood, go straight.
- All beavers are kind to their own beavers.
- A father will always be happy when a good son is born.
- You can’t outdo all the good guys.
- Every fellow is a good example.
- Every youth is full of playfulness.
- Where there is cheerful youth, there is joy.
- You're never young twice.
- The girl is red in a round dance, like poppies in the garden.
- The maiden share is a mystery.
- The tree became crooked when it was young.
- Children are not judges of parents.
- Children are the grace of God.
- Childhood is a golden time.
- The child is frail, but dear to his father and mother.
- It is good to teach whoever listens.
- Good children are the crown of the house, and evil children are the end.
- He worked his way up to trouble.
- The daughter looks like her father - she is happy.
- If sons fly higher than their fathers, go further than them, life is more beautiful.
- To live and grow up, and also to grow smarter.
- For what the father does, so do the children.
- You can know a falcon by its flight, and a good fellow by its actions.
- And she has a white face and sweet eyes.
- Of all the wealth in the world, the greatest wealth is youth.
- From the young, and early: the rooster crows.
- Because of a bad son, the father is also scolded.
- The hut is fun for children.
- Like a swarm without a mother, so is a child without a mother.
- If there is a father and mother, then grace is given to the child.
- Whoever doesn't listen to his mother will get into trouble.
- Whoever honors his parents, God helps him.
- He who honors his parents lives a happy life.
- He who works from a young age is good for anything.
- The affectionate body sucks two queens, but the vigorous one is not given one.
- With a kind word you can melt a stone.
- Small and smart.
- Mal was born and grew up - useful.
- There is joy in the hands of the small and the daring.
- A boy is a joy to his father, and a girl is a joy to her mother.
- The mother of every business is the head.
- Young in years, but wise in mind.
- Young and smart are two things in him.
- The prince is young - the soul is young.
- Young in years, good in deeds.
- A young mind is strengthened by an old mind.
- Well done against the sheep, and against the well done the sheep itself.
- Well done to the cucumber, and well done to the cucumber.
- A young heart is not evasive.
- Young is green, and young is honest.
- Young people reach out to young people.
- A young heart is always closer to the truth.
- The new moon is shining brightly.
- The young and the daring have joy in their hands.
- The young man will need to be strong in the future.
- You cannot return to youth, you have to live by your years.
- Youth is not in years, but in deeds.
- Youth is not eternal, but fleeting.
- Youth will pass like a flower fades.
- Youth is on the prowl - looking for good from good.
- Youth first looks at the sky and then at the earth.
- Youth, don’t be proud of your parents’ wealth—learn.
- The white light shines on the young.
- You will find everything in the world except your own mother.
- Joy is not stinted on happy youth.
- Hopes and dreams love the young.
- It’s not the clothes that make a young man look good; the young man himself is beautiful.
- Honor is not based on the father, but on the mind.
- An unlucky child is the grief of the parents.
- There is no such friend as my dear mother.
- The baby feels good near the uterus.
- The father teaches his son well.
- That's why the guy fell off his horse because his mother sat him down crookedly.
- A father and mother will not last a lifetime.
- You don’t honor your father and mother, you don’t respect anyone.
- Father and mother do not need a treasure if the children get along well.
- The guy is golden, but his hands are clay.
- The guy is young, but he doesn’t like the cold.
- The guy is no slouch - he dreams of a mansion.
- The guy is good, but the work isn't worth a penny.
- Shirt guy - lives in truth, without knowing fear.
- The first-born is born like his mother - he will be happy.
- The first guy is in the village, and there is only one house in the village.
- While you're young, you don't mind the cold.
- Until a son is born, you will not appreciate your father; until you become a mother, you will not appreciate your mother.
- Everything is welcome for the obedient child.
- Sow a habit and grow character.
- An order does not break the back of an obedient son of his fathers.
- For an obedient son, parental orders are not burdensome.
- The potty spoils the dog too.
- Idleness is the mother of vices.
- The bird is happy about spring, and the child is happy about its mother.
- Birds in the nest until autumn, children in the family until the age.
- You can find bird's milk in a fairy tale, but you won't find other parents anywhere.
- The father's heart rejoices from the affectionate child.
- Not only respect your parents, but also help them.
- The parent's word is not spoken by anyone.
- My own mother swings high, but doesn’t hit hard.
- A light brown braid is a girl's beauty.
- Russian hair is a hundred rubles, a bold head is a thousand, but all the good guys have no price.
- The glory of a son is a joy to a father.
- The father's son is stupid - pity, the father's son is smarter - joy.
- A son is a father's helper, a daughter is a mother's helper.
- A young man has a young mind.
- The young have strength, the old have intelligence.
- The child's finger hurts, the mother's heart hurts.
- Smart kid - knows what is bread and what is chaff.
- A smart son is afraid of words, but a stupid son is not afraid of beatings.
- His mustache is breaking through, but he can’t say goodbye to his childhood.
- Yun - don’t be ashamed of poverty - learn.
- Youth is beautiful in age.
- Teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
