"Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business." - Francis Bacon, Essays

"I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child." - Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

"Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes." - Thomas Carlyle

"If youth did not matter so much to itself it would never have the heart to go on." - Willa Cather, Song of the Lark

"Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it." - Coco Chanel, quoted in Marcel Haedrich's Coco Chanel, Her Life, Her Secrets

"If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind." - George Eliot, Middlemarch

"Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor." - Euripides

"Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

"It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence." - Seneca

"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children." - George Bernard Shaw

"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age." - Bierce, Ambrose (1842-c1914)

"Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do." - La Bruy\re in 'Les Caracteres'

"Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait. T: 'If youth but knew; if [old] age but could.'" - Estienne, Henri in 'Les Pr]mices' 1594

"From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture." - Maugham, William Somerset (1874-1965)

"The idea is to die young as late as possible." - Montagu, Ashley

"You're never too old to have a happy childhood." - Unknown