Teenage Independence

Youth has no age. - Pablo Picasso

Youth is wasted on the young. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

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

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

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. - George Santayana

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

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. - Alfred Whitehead

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

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 offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief. - Nicholas Sparks

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

Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible. - Bob Harper

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. - Franklin D Roosevelt

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

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own. - Logan P. Smith

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. - Bill Vaughan

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

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all
Cram in a day what his youth took a year to hold. - Robert Browning

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

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. - Virginia Woolf

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

To win back my youth... There is nothing I wouldn't do - except take exercise, get up early, or be a useful member of the community. - Oscar Wilde

Not one of them who took up in his youth with his opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction. - Plato

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