The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream.
—Anonymous
17
There is no such thing as a normal child.
—Lauretta Bender, 1954
18
Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable
object.
—Laurence J. Peter, 1977
What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can’t hear what
they say?
—Logan Pearsall Smith, 1933
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
—J. B. Priestley, 1982
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
—Doug Larson
19
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks
he’s wrong.
—Charles Wadsworth
20
The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time.
They have now solved it by defying their parents and copying one another.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968
We are born charming, frank and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to
participate in society.
—Judith Martin, 1979
***
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and
have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
—P. G. Wodehouse, 1922
Boys will be boys.
—William Thackeray, 1848
17
Broadly misattributed to actor Bill Murray.
18
Note that she was a prominent child neuropsychiatrist.
19
As quoted, without a date, in several generally reliable collections, starting not later than 2003,
i.e. during the author’s lifetime.
20
He was a Philadelphia preacher, a friend of Emily Dickinson; this quote is sometimes misattributed to his namesake, a present-day classical pianist.
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—Anonymous
17
There is no such thing as a normal child.
—Lauretta Bender, 1954
18
Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable
object.
—Laurence J. Peter, 1977
What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can’t hear what
they say?
—Logan Pearsall Smith, 1933
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
—J. B. Priestley, 1982
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
—Doug Larson
19
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks
he’s wrong.
—Charles Wadsworth
20
The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time.
They have now solved it by defying their parents and copying one another.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968
We are born charming, frank and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to
participate in society.
—Judith Martin, 1979
***
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and
have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
—P. G. Wodehouse, 1922
Boys will be boys.
—William Thackeray, 1848
17
Broadly misattributed to actor Bill Murray.
18
Note that she was a prominent child neuropsychiatrist.
19
As quoted, without a date, in several generally reliable collections, starting not later than 2003,
i.e. during the author’s lifetime.
20
He was a Philadelphia preacher, a friend of Emily Dickinson; this quote is sometimes misattributed to his namesake, a present-day classical pianist.
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