Teenage Independence

Youth has no age. - Pablo Picasso

Youth is wasted on the young. - George Bernard Shaw

Age considers; youth ventures. - Rabindranath Tagore

Youth comes but once in a lifetime. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In youth and beauty wisdom is rare. - Homer

He wears the rose of youth upon him. - William Shakespeare

Keep true to the dreams of your youth. - Friedrich Schiller

Diamonds are forever, my youth is not. - Jill St John

I go to school the youth to learn the future. - Robert Frost

April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. - William Shakespeare

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. - Aristotle

Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. - Samuel Ullman

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. - Aristotle

The fountain of youth is a mixture of gin and vermouth. - Cole Porter

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood. - Louise J. Kaplan

Fourty is the old age of youth; 50 is the youth of old age. - Victor Hugo

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. - Bryan White

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. - Herbert H Asquith

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. - Al Bernstein

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

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has. - Anita Brookner

Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our youth we can have but today; we may always find time to grow old. - George Berkeley

In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. - Josh Billings

It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all. - Georges Courteline

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune. - Joseph Addison

Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. - G K Chesterton

Beware of what you wish for in youth, because you will get it in middle life. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Young people don't know what age is, and old people forget what youth was. - Irish Proverb

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. - Anne Bradstreet

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. - Dave Barry

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rourke

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. - W Somerset Maugham

The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love. - Monique Roffey

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall. A mother's secret hope outlives them all. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should. - Sargent Shriver

Motherhood is not for the fainthearted. Frogs, skinned knees and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy. - Danielle Steele

The key to happiness and youth is an unencumbered spirit – whether it comes naturally or whether you have to work hard for it. - Emme Woodhull-Bache

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become. - André Gide

When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth. - Joseph Mitchell