Teenage Independence

Fame is the thirst of youth. - Lord Byron

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

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

The youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

To play billiards well is a sign of ill-spent youth. - Charles Roupell

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

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. - e e cummings

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

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

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

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

Quarantine: When a youth locks himself in his bedroom for months at a time - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China. - Rob Lowe

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

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

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age, and 'how well you look.' - Nelson Rockefeller

When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to your youth... think of algebra. - Will Rogers

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

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

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

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