Children/Youth

Youth is wasted on the young.

-- George Bernard Shaw

I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.

-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

-- Socrates

Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.

-- Mark Twain

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

-- Peter Ustinov

I am not young enough to know everything.

-- Oscar Wilde

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

-- Oscar Wilde

The child is the father of the man.

-- William Wordsworth

When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic.

-- Steven Wright

We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.

-- Woodrow Wyatt