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| The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. ~ Quentin Crisp |
| Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~ Italian Proverb |
| Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. ~ Laurence J. Peter |
| Don’t laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith, "Age and Death," |
| If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. ~ Al Bernstein |
| When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there’s a good chance the transmission is shot. ~ Larry Lujack |
| The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires. ~ Dorothy Parker |
| Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. ~ Erma Bombeck |
| Adolescence is perhaps nature’s way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest. ~ Karen Savage and Patricia Adams, |
| In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| 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, |
| Too many of today’s children have straight teeth and crooked morals. ~ Unknown high school principal |
| Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. ~ Doug Larson |
| Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery. ~ Ambrose Bierce, |
| Mother Nature is providential. She gives us twelve years to develop a love for our children before turning them into teenagers. ~ William Galvin |
| The best substitute for experience is being sixteen. ~ Raymond Duncan |
| When the boy is growing he has a wolf in his belly. ~ German Proverb |
| In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15. ~ Robert Brault |
| Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers. ~ Fran Lebowitz |
| The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding. ~ Edgar Friedenberg, |
| The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don’t have to pay taxes – naturally, no one wants to live any other way. ~ Judith Martin |
| There’s nothing wrong with the younger generation that becoming taxpayers won’t cure. ~ Dan Bennett |
| Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. ~ Author Unknown |
| 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 he had learned in seven years. ~ Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" |
| Chaperons don’t enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet. ~ Judith Martin |
| Teenagers complain there’s nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it. ~ Bob Phillips |
| The average income of the modern teenager is about 2 a.m. ~ Author Unknown |
| Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. ~ Arnold H. Glasow |
| There isn’t a child who hasn’t gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn’t return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes. ~ Art Buchwald |
| It’s difficult to decide whether growing pains are something teenagers have – or are. ~ Author Unknown |