Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
—Herbert Hoover, 1936Quotes
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, 1959Rejoice, 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 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, 1881The young always have the same problem—how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their elders and copying one another.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968I 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, 1813Ah, there are no children nowadays.
—Molière, 1673Youth, youth, springtime of beauty.
—Anthem of the National Fascist Party, c. 1924Childhood knows what it wants—to leave childhood behind.
—Jean Cocteau, 1947Most men employ the first years of their life in making the last miserable.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688A sick child is always the mother’s property; her own feelings generally make it so.
—Jane Austen, 1816No time to marry, no time to settle down, I’m a young woman, and ain’t done runnin’ round.
—Bessie Smith, 1926No one’s serious at seventeen.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1870