Youth

Thou dost know

The faults to which the young are ever prone;

The will is quick to act, the judgment weak

Robert Graves

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

Oliver Wendell Holmes. 

Thou Know'st the o'er-eager vehemence of youth, How quick in temper, and in judgment weak.

Homer

It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once  all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confidence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance. Seeing nothing that can darken or embarrass the question, they expect to find their own opinion universally prevalent, and are inclined to impute uncertainty and hesitation to want of honesty, rather than of knowledge.

Samuel Johnson


Nothing matters more to the future of this Nation than insuring that our young men and women learn to believe in themselves and believe in their dreams, and that they develop this capacity - that you develop this capacity, so that you keep it all of your lives.
Richard M. Nixon


Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Attributed to George Bernard Shaw.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
George Bernard Shaw.

Youth is not a time of life-it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a feshness of the deep springs of life.
Samuel Ullman


The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
Woodrow Wilson.