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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

Childhood has no forebodings—but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

—George Eliot, 1860

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

—Edward VIII, 1957

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

Ah, there are no children nowadays.

—Molière, 1673

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

—Lord Byron, 1813

Most men employ the first years of their life in making the last miserable.

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688

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

A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

—Cicero, 44 BC

The young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.

—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747