Andrew Davies Quotes

Younger people are generally more adventurous - they're more open, more fun - have you met many guys my age? Guys my age are married or divorced or grumpy, fat and balding.

Youth is the only thing worth having.

I suppose it is a gift, being young, but it isn't special. We've all got it, early in life.

All the same don't forget that you're young — blessedly young; be glad of it on the contrary and live up to it. Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.

I feel like a young man of 15.

To be young is the only religion.

Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.

It's great to be in a room full of young people...The average age of the Senate, I think, is death.

If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

Youth is a frame of mind. If you get out there and enjoy it, you can have it at any time of your life.

Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why.

Only to youth will spring be spring.

Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.

Youth is a question of energy.

Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking through even the worst days of poverty, depression and loneliness. But then youth is something which only exists in retrospect; you are barely conscious of it while you have it.

To be young was very heaven!

To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.

To be young, really young, takes a very long time.

You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect.

...youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so much as being like one of these malenky toys you viddy being sold in the streets, like little chellovecks made out of tin and with a spring inside and then a winding handle on the outside and you wind it up grrr grrr grrr and off it itties, like walking, O my brothers. But it itties in a straight line and bangs straight into things bang bang and it cannot help what it is doing. Being young is like being like one of these malenky machines.