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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they allow disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children now are tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
This quote was used by the Mayor of Amsterdam, Gijsbert van Hall, following a street demonstration in 1966, as reported by The New York Times, April 3, 1966, p. 16
-Anon.
widely mis-attributed to Socrates
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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.
-Proverb
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If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
-Proverb
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All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.
-Conrad Aiken
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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
-Aristotle
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They Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.
-Aristotle
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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
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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
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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
-Natalie Clifford Barney
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
-James Barrie
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What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.
-Georges Bernanos
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Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. Ecclesiastes 11:9
-Bible
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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Lamentations 3:27
-Bible
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
-Ambrose Bierce
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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.
-Josh Billings
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Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.
-Jim Bishop
Age of Consent to What?, "Shrewsbury NJ Daily Register", April 26, 1979
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But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
-Louise Bogan
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I'm trying very hard to understand this generation. They have adjusted the timetable for childbearing so that menopause and teaching a sixteen-year-old how to drive a car will occur in the same week.
-Erma Bombeck
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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
-Anita Brookner
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
-Robert Browning
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.
-Pearl Buck
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Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
-Edmund Burke
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So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.
-Al Capp
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Books about Youth
