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Yesterday I loved, today I suffer, tomorrow I die: but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.

(Gestern liebt' ich,
Heute leid' ich,
Morgen sterb' ich:
Dennoch denk' ich
Heut und morgen
Gern an gestern.)

Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

When I was young, the old regarded me as an outrageous young fellow, and now that I'm old the young regard me as an outrageous old fellow.

Oh roses for the flush of youth,
And laurel for the perfect prime;
But pluck an ivy branch for me
Grown old before my time.

Whom the gods love dies young.

Whom the gods love die young no matter how long they live.

When the Greeks said, "Whom the gods love die young," they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful.

It takes a long time to become young.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

Oh, to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small, and only half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am.

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

There's not a man in America who at one time or another hasn't had a secret desire to boot a child in the ass.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

The contempt of risk, and the presumptuous hope of success, are in no period of life more active than at the age at which young people choose their professions.

Youth doesn't take advice.

The one form of change we can always count on is the violent oscillation of intellectual fashion among the young.

Bewildered by a rapidly changing society, excessively fearful of becoming out of date, our leaders are increasingly turning to young people as guides and mentors.

Ah God! Had I but studied
In the days of my foolish youth.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven!

I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.

If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us.

When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
'Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
Give pearls away and rubies,
But keep your fancy free.'
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded.