adolescence quotes

A man suffering from petrified adolescence.

- Aneurin Bevan
Of  Winston Churchill. Quoted in Vincent Brome Aneurin Bevan (1953).

You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough.

-Cicero full name MarcusTullius Cicero
  In the Saturday Review, Fall issue. BC Roman orator and statesman, exiled after his unconstitutional executionof the Catiline conspirators. Although recalledby the people (57 BC) he lost the respect of both Caesar andPompey by his  vacillations.  He  wrote  most  of  his  major  works  on  rhetoric and  philosophy  in  retirement  in  Rome.  His  speeches  against Mark  Antony  after  Caesar's  death  (The Philippics)  cost  him  his life.

Were Ito deduceanysystem frommy feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called TheTheory of Permanent Adolescence.

- Cyril Vernon Connolly
  Enemies of Promise, ch.24.

L'adolescence est le seul temps o  u' l'on ait appris quelque chose. Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something.

- Marcel Proust
  A la recherche du temps perdu,'A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs'.