Adolescence Quote by Plutarch

For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.

— John Dryden

Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.

— Philip James Bailey

Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth.

— Susanna Centlivre

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

— Henry Rollins

“Youth so apt for pleasure that pleasure, one thought, must exist”

— Virginia Woolf

Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

— Anonymous

Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and…

— Louise J. Kaplan

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

— Anonymous

Adolescence has been recognised as a stage of human development since medieval times--long, long before the industrial revolution--and, as it is now, has long…

— Terri E Apter

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young

— Oscar Wilde

Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one…

— Andre Gide

Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger.

— Mary Pipher