We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
J. B. Priestley

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
Charles Caleb Colton

I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself. It was me, thinking I knew what was up. Youth, who else can change the world?
Kevin Eubanks

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
Samuel Richardson

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.
Samuel Richardson

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
Jacqueline Bisset

It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.
Georges Courteline

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Maurice Chevalier

Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair.
Abu Bakr

Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes.
Francis Parker Yockey

I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking.
Portia de Rossi

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
Jean Paul

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
Pope Paul VI

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.
Anna Jameson

That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.
Willie Stargell

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.
J. B. Priestley

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.
Robert Wyatt

I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology.
Robert Wyatt

There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.
Robert Wyatt

All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.
David Cronenberg