The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven, if you still know everything, you're still seventeen.
Ray BradburyIt takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
George BurnsIn fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
J. K. RowlingI remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?
J. K. RowlingAt fifteen, life had taught me undeniably that surrender in its place was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
Maya AngelouAs a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.
Johnny DeppCommon sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert EinsteinTo look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life, than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
Jane AustenYour modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
Dave BarryTelling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.
Arnold H. GlasowAs 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 LebowitzI didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager as I think most teen-agers don't.
Alanis MorissetteThe internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.
J. K. RowlingI wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.
Taylor SwiftIt seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.
Chuck PalahniukAnd so by the fifteenth century on October 8 the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to and they came up with a new concept: the West.
Dave BarrySeven hundred and sixteen billion dollars funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare and we're going to stop it.
Paul RyanOld age is fifteen years older than I am.
Oliver Wendell HolmesOh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
David Herbert LawrenceWhy one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.
Simone de BeauvoirRemember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
Fran LebowitzUnquestionably it is possible to do without happiness, it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
John Stuart MillScience has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
John BurroughsWhen I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.
J. K. RowlingI'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars would sign over half to me and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
Bette DavisAt fifteen beauty and talent do not exist, there can only be promise of the coming woman.
Honore de BalzacIn the land of my birth I cannot vote whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
Desmond TutuThanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
Erma BombeckI'm eighteen years behind in my ironing.
Phyllis DillerBeing a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour she can hurt you.
Erma BombeckWe do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.
J. K. RowlingIn the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
Erich FrommAgeism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.
Alanis MorissetteAt eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look, at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic it had cosmic terms and hopes and aspirations and discoveries and ideals but it had no logic.
Gertrude SteinI smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
George BurnsA man can sleep around no questions asked but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.
Joan RiversThe nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
Gertrude SteinThe appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.
AristotleAs a teen I was both anorexic and bulimic.
Alanis MorissetteOld is always fifteen years from now.
Bill CosbyI was a veteran before I was a teenager.
Michael JacksonAlmost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
Bertrand RussellPreparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
Dwight L. MoodyWe need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
Barack ObamaUntil the rise of American advertising it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
Gore VidalFew people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
John Kenneth Galbraith