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Ah, there are no children nowadays.

—Molière, 1673

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

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

—Herbert Hoover, 1936

Childhood knows what it wants—to leave childhood behind.

—Jean Cocteau, 1947

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

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

—Seneca the Younger, c. 63

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

—Plato, c. 348 BC

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

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

—Jonathan Swift, 1706

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

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

—Edward VIII, 1957
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