Quotes About Folly Of Youth

#1. We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall
but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

John Wyndham

#2. Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. I can't have you without claiming you for forever."
"Then claim me. I'll claim you too."
"That's exactly what I'm afraid of.

Aly Martinez

#4. It is always so much easier to blame someone else rather than accepting responsibility for your experiences.

Iyanla Vanzant

#5. It is fortunate that youth never recognizes its ignorance, for if it did it would not find the courage to get the habit of endurance. It is perhaps an instinct of the blood and flesh which prevents this knowledge and allows the boy to become the man who will live to see the folly of his existence.

John Edward Williams

#6. I know people are going to be suspicious about everyone now. I know I don't have anything to hide. I've never done anything. It's just a shame it's gotten to this point.

Ryan Howard

#7. I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live.

Nancy Thayer

#8. I do not regret the folly of my youth, but the timidity.

Mason Cooley

#9. It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age.

Desiderius Erasmus

#10. It was certainly a good death scene. I'm endlessly perishing in roles but it's a wonderful thing to be asked to do.

Emilia Fox

#11. Folly is the only thing that keeps youth at a stay and old age afar off;" as it is verified in the Brabanders, of whom there goes this common saying, "That age, which is wont to render other men wiser, makes them the greater fools.

Erasmus

#12. I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface.

James Nicoll

#13. What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?

Abraham Lincoln

#14. The Squire's life was quite as idle as his sons', but it was a fiction kept up by himself and his contemporaries in Raveloe that youth was exclusively the period of folly, and that their aged wisdom was constantly in a state of endurance mitigated by sarcasm.

George Eliot

#15. Hope, Joy, Youth, Peace, Rest, Life, Dust, Ashes, Waste, Want, Ruin, Despair, Madness, Death, Cunning, Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach.

Charles Dickens