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Ah, there are no children nowadays.

—Molière, 1673

No one’s serious at seventeen.

—Arthur Rimbaud, 1870

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

—Bessie Smith, 1926

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

—Herbert Hoover, 1936

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

—Jonathan Swift, 1706

Childhood knows what it wants—to leave childhood behind.

—Jean Cocteau, 1947

Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children. 

—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330

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

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

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

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

—Seneca the Younger, c. 63

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
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