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
It takes seventy-two muscles to frown, but only thirteen to smile.
Little children, headache; big children, heartache.
Italian Proverb
Kindness and honesty can only be expected from the strong.
It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
Laurence J. Peter
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
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
Knowledge is power.
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
Al Bernstein
Life is too short to be small.
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
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
Erma Bombeck
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare
Adolescence is perhaps nature’s way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest.
Karen Savage & Patricia Adams
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
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
Mothers of Teenagers Know Why Animals Eat Their Young
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
A baby-sitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers
Too many of today’s children have straight teeth and crooked morals.
Why do they rate a movie “R” for “adult language?” The only people I hear using that language are teenagers
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
Doug Larson
The main problem with teenagers is that they’re just like their parents were at their age
Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.
Ambrose Bierce
Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television’s message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth and fresher breath.
Mother Nature is providential. She gives us twelve years to develop a love for our children before turning them into teenagers.
William Galvin
Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. To the librarian, they’re a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they’re a scourge of locusts. To department stores they’re a big beautiful exaltation of larks. all lovely and loose and jingly.
The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.
Raymond Duncan
Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves
When the boy is growing he has a wolf in his belly.
German Proverb
A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people’s money.
Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers.
Fran Lebowitz
A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it’s better for them to go through them on their own. If you always have a crutch, you don’t learn anything.
The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.
Edgar Friedenberg
All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.
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
American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We’re even trailing France.
There’s nothing wrong with the younger generation that becoming taxpayers won’t cure.
Dan Bennett
At the time I came along, Hollywood’s idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.
But on the other hand, pot is the best recreational substance for teenagers, athletes, people who have naturally high adrenaline.
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
Drugs are in every walk of life – doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school.
Chaperons don’t enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.
Judith Martin
Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that’s Hollywood.
Teenagers complain there’s nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.
Bob Phillips
Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!
The average income of the modern teenager is about 2 a.m.
I am the parent of teenagers, my daughters are 13 and 15, so the issue of Internet safety has been an important issue. I have been visiting middle schools to talk about some of the challenges that they face.
Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.
Arnold H. Glasow
I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole of our lives with each other because of our music.
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
I find the idea of today’s icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring.
It’s difficult to decide whether growing pains are something teenagers have – or are.
I get letters from kids, teenagers and young girls who just want to be Mac. I’ve had quite a few people actually say that they’re going to become a Marine or a JAG lawyer because of me… the character. I think that’s pretty cool!
The average teenager still has all the faults his parents outgrew.
I guess if you’re lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren.
A baby-sitter is a teenager who gets two dollars an hour to eat five dollars’ worth of your food.
Henny Youngman
I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.
There is nothing wrong with today’s teenager that twenty years won’t cure.
I know, it’s true. I’ve played these tortured teenagers. I can’t wait to shed that image.
What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.
Mignon McLaughlin
I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.
I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle.
Erma Bombeck
I think it’s ridiculous to try to sell records to teenagers, because teenagers don’t buy my records. And there ain’t that many teenagers out there in the marketplace.
You don’t have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
John Ciardi
I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers – the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.
A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.
Lewis B. Hershey
You can tell a child is growing up when he stops asking where he came from and starts refusing to tell where he is going.
How strange that the young should always think the world is against them – when in fact that is the only time it is for them.
Mignon McLaughlin
At fourteen you don’t need sickness or death for tragedy.
Jessamyn West
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
Edgar W. Howe
Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.
Virginia Satir
The troubles of adolescence eventually all go away – it’s just like a really long, bad cold.
Dawn Ruelas
I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now.
Will Rogers
Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.
Yiddish Proverb
My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe.
Faye Moskowitz