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

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

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

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

I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.

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

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.

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

Ah, there are no children nowadays.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

No one’s serious at seventeen.

Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.

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.