I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884 - 1980)

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
Coco Chanel (1883 - 1971)

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
Dave Barry (1947 - )

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

If youth only knew: if age only could.
Henri Estienne (1470 - 1520)

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Herbert Henry Asquith (1852 - 1928)

No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)

In youth we learn; in age we understand.
Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)