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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)

In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl'. (Quote by - Tom Lehrer)

Children have more need of models than of critics. (Quote by - Carolyn Coats)

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. (Quote by - Renata Adler)

When a man of 40 falls in love with a girl of 20, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own. (Quote by - Lenore Coffee)

Youth has no age. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso )

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. (Quote by - Euripides)

It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it. (Quote by - Nelson Rockefeller)

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. (Quote by - Bible)

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. (Quote by - Al Bernstein)

Only the young die good. (Quote by - Oliver Herford)

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life. (Quote by - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu)

If youth but knew, and age were able, Then poverty would be a fable. (Quote by - Proverbs)

That miracle of youth, Mr Christopher Wren. (Quote by - John Evelyn)

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age. (Quote by - Wyndham Lewis)

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood. (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)

Children are poor men's riches. (Quote by - English Proverb)

Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination? (Quote by - Walt Whitman)

The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life. (Quote by - George Orwell)

I'm not the callow youth of yesteryear. I'm a man of steel, honed on the handle of life. (Quote by - Ken Morley)

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

Youth comes but once in a lifetime. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

The old age of an eagle is better than the youth of a sparrow. (Quote by - Proverb)

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