I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy.
It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Margaret Atwood

The young do not know enough to be prudent,
and therefore they attempt the impossible--
and achieve it, generation after generation.

Pearl S. Buck

The best way to keep young is to keep going in whatever it is that keeps you going.
With me that's work, and a lot of it. And when a job is finished, relax and have fun.

Ingrid Bergman

George Bernard Shaw

It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music,
and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities
that lie within the human spirit--enable them to see visions and dream dreams.

Eric Anderson

 Youth
Samuel Ullman

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter
of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of
the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions;
it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

   Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over
timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease.
This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty.
Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. 
We grow old by deserting our ideals.

   Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm
wrinkles the soul.  Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the
heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

   Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's
heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of
what's next, and the joy of the game of living.  In the center
of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long
as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and
power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young.

   When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with
snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown
old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the
waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Henry Asquith

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than
for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Francis Bacon 

Young people are apt to think themselves wise enough,
as drunken people are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Lord Chesterfield

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Marcus Cicero

The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform
at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their
parents and copying one another.

Quentin Crisp

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Euripides

It takes a long time to become young.

Pablo Picasso

Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable
for biting winds than genial breezes.  Autumn is the mellower season,
and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Samuel Butler