The young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747Quotes
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, 1813Childhood knows what it wants—to leave childhood behind.
—Jean Cocteau, 1947No one’s serious at seventeen.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1870A sick child is always the mother’s property; her own feelings generally make it so.
—Jane Austen, 1816I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.
—Groucho Marx, 1959I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.
—Margaret Atwood, 1976Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.
—Theognis, c. 550 BCYouth 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, 1881No time to marry, no time to settle down, I’m a young woman, and ain’t done runnin’ round.
—Bessie Smith, 1926A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.
—Cicero, 44 BCAh, there are no children nowadays.
—Molière, 1673The boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.
—Plato, c. 348 BC