Best youth & wise Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement ... Manners, by which not only the freedom, but the very existence of the republics, are greatly affected, depend much upon the public institutions of religion and the good education of youth; in both these instances our fathers laid wise foundations, for which their posterity have had reason to bless their memory.”

“Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood.”

Brain Wise Youth Battle Train Temper Governors Womanhood Being Wise Meek Motherly

Book:The Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth

“Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.”

Men Grows Loses Growing Up Wise Youth Worldly Worldly Wisdom

Book:JOHN BUCHAN Ultimate Collection: Spy Classics, Thrillers, Adventure Novels & Short Stories, Including Historical Works and Essays (Illustrated): Scottish Poems, World War I Books & Mystery Novels like Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Huntingtower, No Man’s Land, Prester John and many more

Source: JOHN BUCHAN Ultimate Collection: Spy Classics, Thrillers, Adventure Novels & Short Stories, Including Historical Works and Essays (Illustrated): Scottish Poems, World War I Books & Mystery Novels like Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Huntingtower, No Man’s Land, Prester John and many more

“Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.”

Wise Youth Kings Expectations Pigs Palaces

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom To believe in the good in man.”

Men Believe Song Wise Youth Sweet Meetings

Author:Jon Anderson

“There is no man ... however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man -- so far as it is possible for any of us to be wise -- unless he has passed through all the fatuous or unwholesome incarnations by which that ultimate stage must be preceded.”

Men Said Wisdom Certain Memories Wise Stage Youth Regret Ought Periods Ultimate Incarnation Being Wise

Book:In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time

Source: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time

“Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.”

Men Young Wise Youth Wine Bread Pretty Woman

Author:Thomas Chandler Haliburton

“Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.”

Might Pain Suffering Pleasure Wise Youth Being Wise

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years.”

Years Wise Generations Youth Chickens Provision Previous Generations Roost

Book:Some everyday folk and dawn

Source: Some everyday folk and dawn

“A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not.”

Should Wisdom Seems Young Wise Youth Ought Fellows Maturity Wiser Being Wise

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.”

Age Education Wise Youth Old Age Productive

Author:Meat Loaf

“Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.”

Men Mind Firsts Wells Age Young Imagination Wise Youth Invention Young Man Streams Lively

Book:The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author

“It takes a long time to become young.”