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Using Quotations in a Speech or Text about Youth

As well as keeping your audience engaged, adding quotations to a speech or a text can significantly enhance its impact and effectiveness. Quotations are useful for explaining complex ideas concisely, much in the same way that analogies are used. Additionally, quotations from experts or celebrities can add credibility to your message.

Here are some funny and poignant quotations about youth. If your speech is serious, do not automatically avoid funny quotations as they can often be the most impactful, forcing your audience into the thinking about the hidden analogous message in your selected quotation.

  • "Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious." (British actor Peter Ustinov)
  • "When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth." (Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw)
If you are looking to make a fuller speech about youth, then below this selection of quotations are three funny themes and three serious themes on the topic of youth that might help trigger some ideas for your speech or text.
quotations about youth

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." Mark Twain (American writer, 1835-1910)

"Youth is wasted on the young." George Bernard Shaw (Irish dramatist, 1856-1950)

"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children." George Bernard Shaw (Irish dramatist, 1856-1950)

"I was young once, but I was never this stupid." Anon

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"Youth is a disease from which we all recover." Dorothy Fulheim (American journalist, 1893-1989)

"Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to." Bill Vaughan (American columnist, 1915-77)

Youth would be an ideal state if it came *a little later in life.*earlier.*with money.* Herbert Asquith (British Liberal statesman, 1852-1928)

"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art." Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (Polish poet, 1909-1966)

"When I was young, I used to think that money was the most important thing in life. Now that I am old, I know it is." Oscar Wilde (Irish dramatist and poet, 1854-1900)

"The young are often so full of themselves that they barely leave room for anyone else." Anon

"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, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions." Samuel Ullman (American businessman, 1840-1924)

Youth is a disease that must be overcome *with experience.*at any cost.*slowly.* Anon

"Youth is a period of missed opportunities." Cyril Connolly (English writer, 1903-74)

"When you're young, you think your parents are idiots. When you're older, you know they were." Mark Twain (American writer, 1835-1910)

"Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending." Anne Bradstreet (English poet, 1612-72)

"Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret." Benjamin Disraeli (British Conservative statesman, 1804-81)

"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (American polymath, 1809-94)

"Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try and meet a man who'll never show up." F. Scott Fitzgerald (American novelist, 1896-1940)

"Youth is wasted on the young, but being young is wasted on the old." Anon

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"It is better to *waste one's youth*eat a hamburger*use your education* than to do nothing with it at all." Georges Courteline (French writer and dramatist, 1858-1929)

"Fresh salmon. If you see someone young, beautiful and happy, you should slap them as hard as you can with it." Richard Griffiths (English actor, 1947-2013)

"Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you." Fran Lebowitz (American writer, 1946-)

"The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes – naturally no one wants to live any other way." Judith Martin (American journalist, 1938-)

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them *up to date.*in jars.*from talking.* George Bernard Shaw (Irish dramatist, 1856-1950)

The only way to stay young is to *avoid old people.*use a tonne of moisturiser.*avoid mirrors.* James D. Watson (American biologist, 1928-)

"Being young is not having any money; being young is not minding not having any money." Katharine Whitehorn (English journalist, 1928-)

Thinking Template for a Speech or Text on Youth

Below are 3 funny themes and 3 serious themes related to youth. These have been included to help you identify areas to explore.

Funny Themes:

  1. Teenage Terrors: The Funniest Misadventures of Growing Up
    • Share amusing anecdotes or stories about the humorous and often awkward challenges of teenage life, from school blunders to first job mishaps.
  2. Young Wisdom: The Most Hilariously Profound Statements from Kids
    • Explore humorous and unexpectedly profound statements made by children, showcasing their unique perspective on life's big questions.
  3. Playground Politics: The Funniest Kid Arguments and Resolutions
    • Discuss comical arguments or disputes among kids in playgrounds or schools and the often inventive or absurd ways they resolve them.

Serious Themes:

  1. Youth Empowerment: Challenges, Opportunities, and Achievements
    • Explore the challenges and opportunities facing today’s youth, discussing how young people are empowered through education, technology, and activism.
  2. Young Minds: Mental Health, Stress, and Coping Strategies
    • Discuss the mental health issues prevalent among young people today, including stress, anxiety, and depression, along with effective coping strategies and support systems.
  3. The Future of Work: Preparing Youth for Tomorrow's Challenges
    • Address the skills and preparations necessary for young people to face the future job market, including the impact of automation, the gig economy, and the need for lifelong learning.

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