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

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688

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

—Herbert Hoover, 1936

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

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

—Edward VIII, 1957

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

—George Eliot, 1860

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

—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747

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

Childhood knows what it wants—to leave childhood behind.

—Jean Cocteau, 1947

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

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

—Jane Austen, 1816

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

—Cicero, 44 BC

Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the inclination of your heart and the desire of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 200 BC