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. TolkienSource: 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 AustenSource: Northanger Abbey
If you have more dreams than achievements-you're young.
Shimon PeresIf 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 BrysonSource: The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.
Jennifer YaneIt 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 EinsteinMathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.
Arnold SommerfeldNo 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 AnnanNo one who is young is ever going to be old.
John SteinbeckNobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
Keith RichardsOld 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.
MinkukelThe idea is to die young as late as possible.
Ashley MontaguThe old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar WildeTo 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 AustenSource: Pride and Prejudice
Quoted: Elizabeth
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
Mark TwainWho would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
Anne FrankYou are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
Ogden NashYou can't be old and wise, if you were never young and crazy.
Chris BrownYou can't put off being young until you retire.
Philip LarkinYour two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.
BibleSource: 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. RowlingSource: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Quoted: Dumbledore