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Whom the gods love dies young.

Whom the gods love die young no matter how long they live.

When the Greeks said, "Whom the gods love die young," they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful.

It takes a long time to become young.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

Oh, to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small, and only half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am.

It is only an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

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

Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

There's not a man in America who at one time or another hasn't had a secret desire to boot a child in the ass.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

The contempt of risk, and the presumptuous hope of success, are in no period of life more active than at the age at which young people choose their professions.

Youth doesn't take advice.

The one form of change we can always count on is the violent oscillation of intellectual fashion among the young.

Bewildered by a rapidly changing society, excessively fearful of becoming out of date, our leaders are increasingly turning to young people as guides and mentors …

Ah God! Had I but studied
In the days of my foolish youth.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.