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| And out of each (schoolhouse) is vomited the standard product of the New Pedagogy - an endless procession of adolescents who have been taught everything save that which is true, and outfitted with every trick save those that are socially useful | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. | | Fran Lebowitz | |
| As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so. | | Charles de Gaulle | |
| At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer. | | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
| Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art | | Eleanor Roosevelt | |
| Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. | | Albert Einstein | |
| Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your | | Ernest Hemingway | |
| Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. | | Doug Larson | |
| Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own | | Doug Larson | |
| Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. | | P. J. O'Rourke | |
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| If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult. | | P. J. O'Rourke | |
| Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty | | Mark Twain | |
| Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means | | D.H. Lawrence | |
| One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community. | | Albert Einstein | |
| Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. | | Fran Lebowitz | |
| The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men. | | Aristotle | |
| Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults. | | Gore Vidal | |
| 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 by how much he'd learned in seven years. | | Mark Twain | |
| When you are seventeen you aren't really serious. | | Max Lerner | |
