Age Quote by Greg Boyle

Every age and degree of understanding should have its proper measure of discipline. With regard to boys and adolescents, therefore, or those who cannot…

— Benedict of Nursia

Youth condemns; maturity condones

— Amy Lowell

Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak.

— Homer

Young persons, because of their immaturity, may not fully comprehend the consequences of their actions and should therefore benefit from less severe sanctions than…

— Mary Robinson

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

— Anonymous

You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.

— Ron Howard

A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve…

— Anonymous

But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

— Fanny Burney

“I told you that 'juvenile delinquent' is a contradiction in terms. 'Delinquent' means 'failing in duty.' But duty is an adult virtue—indeed a juvenile…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“three-quarters of today’s youth between the ages of seventeen and twenty-four are unfit to serve for one reason or another.”

— Tyler Cowen

Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment…

— Maya Angelou

One reason there are so many juvenile delinquents today is that their parents didn't burn their britches behind them.

— Anonymous