Since adolescents are too old to do the things kids do and not old enough to do the things adults do, they do things nobody else will do.
—Anonymous
A teenager never opens his mouth when speaking except when there is food in it.
—David Guttman, MD
Carol is fifteen, to put it mildly.
—Joan Hess
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
—Doug Larson
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
—Erma Bombeck
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
—Mark Twain (attrib.)
There’s nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won’t aggravate.
—Anonymous
If Abraham’s son had been a teenager, it wouldn’t have been a sacrifice.
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