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

—Cicero, 44 BC

The 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, 1968

No one’s serious at seventeen.

—Arthur Rimbaud, 1870

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

—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747

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

—Bessie Smith, 1926

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

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

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

—Herbert Hoover, 1936

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

—George Eliot, 1860

Ah, there are no children nowadays.

—Molière, 1673

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

—Jane Austen, 1816

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

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688
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