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Youth, youth, springtime of beauty.

—Anthem of the National Fascist Party, c. 1924

I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.

—Groucho Marx, 1959

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

—Edward VIII, 1957

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

—Margaret Atwood, 1976

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

—Donald Barthelme, 1964

Ah, there are no children nowadays.

—Molière, 1673

Childhood knows what it wants—to leave childhood behind.

—Jean Cocteau, 1947

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

—Mark Twain, 1876

A sick child is always the mother’s property; her own feelings generally make it so.

—Jane Austen, 1816

No time to marry, no time to settle down, I’m a young woman, and ain’t done runnin’ round.

—Bessie Smith, 1926

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1940

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

—Jonathan Swift, 1706

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

—Herbert Hoover, 1936