Subject: Age » Young

You don’t have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

(1916 – 1986) American poet, translator & etymologist

Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.

(1667 – 1745) Irish satirist & essayist

I can do some things now that I couldn't do when I was 17, like date high school girls.

(1955 – ) American stand-up comedian

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

Until I was 13, I thought my name was ‘Shut Up.’

(1943 – ) American football player

There are three ages of man: youth, middle age and “Gee, you look good.”

(1913 – 1997) American comedian & radio & television host

I am not young enough to know everything.

(1860 – 1937) Scottish author, dramatist (creator of Peter Pan)

You want to look younger… rent smaller children.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.

(1915 – 1985) stage & film actor & director

It is better to waste one’s youth than to do nothing with it at all.

(1858 – 1929) French dramatist, novelist & satirist

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business.

(1923 – 1966) stand-up comedian, writer, social critic & satirist

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going; I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have remembrances of what never happened.

(1870 – 1916) British writer

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.

(1957 – ) English actor, writer, journalist, comedian & film director

When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, "Do you have any toy train schedules?"

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

He was young – He was fair – But the Injuns – Raised his hair

Whatever a parent does is wrong.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

(1775 – 1834) English critic & essayist

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve; middle age is when you're forced to.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor