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

—Jane Austen, 1816

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

—Jonathan Swift, 1706

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

The young man must store up, the old man must use.

—Seneca the Younger, c. 63

No one’s serious at seventeen.

—Arthur Rimbaud, 1870

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

—Edward VIII, 1957

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

—Bessie Smith, 1926

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

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 boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage. 

—Plato, c. 348 BC

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body, to try the manners of different nations, to hear the chimes at midnight.

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881

Youth, youth, springtime of beauty.

—Anthem of the National Fascist Party, c. 1924

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