How old are you? Here are some proverbs and quotes about being young.
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A young idler, an old beggar.If you don't work when you are young, you won't have money when you're old.
An old banana leaf was once young and green.
Every smile makes you a day younger.
Farewell! O Elvenking! ... Merry be the greenwood, while the world is yet young! And merry be all your folk!J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 18 - The Return Journey
Quoted: Gandalf
If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.Jane Austen
Source: Northanger Abbey
If you have more dreams than achievements-you're young.Shimon Peres
If you took all the young men in southern England with those caps and that slouch and collected them all together in one room, you still wouldn't have enough IQ points to make a halfwit.Bill Bryson
Source: The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.Jennifer Yane
It is easier to watch over one hundred fleas than one young girl.
Loneliness is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is mature.Albert Einstein
Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.Arnold Sommerfeld
No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline.Kofi Annan
No one who is young is ever going to be old.John Steinbeck
Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.Keith Richards
Old mushroom has young root.
Old people are pessimists and young people are optimists because pessimists get old when they are 20 and optimists stay young all their life.Minkukel
The idea is to die young as late as possible.Ashley Montagu
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.Oscar Wilde
To a young heart everything is sport.
To be old and wise, you must first have to be young and stupid.(unknown author)
What are young men to rocks and mountains?Jane Austen
Source: Pride and Prejudice
Quoted: Elizabeth
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.Mark Twain
Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?Anne Frank
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.Ogden Nash
You can't be old and wise, if you were never young and crazy.Chris Brown
You can't put off being young until you retire.Philip Larkin
Your two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.Bible
Source: Song of Solomon
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.J.K. Rowling
Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Quoted: Dumbledore
