Mason Cooley Youth Quotations

The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

The young have stolen our youthfulness, and flaunt it without shame.

The trouble with the young people today is that it is they who are young.

My young friend supposes his ingenuousness is merely a ruse.

The young are just as opinionated as the old, but have more exciting things to do than sit around airing their opinions all day.

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

The young are amazed when they suffer.

The noisy vacancy of youth, the quiet vacancy of age.

The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

The modest youth somehow knows just what to do for the cameras.