quotes for teenagers about life

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. ~Andre Gide, Le traite du Narcisse, 1891 Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on. ~George Bernard Shaw


We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays


There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries. ~Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt


Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. ~Aesop


True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. ~Edward Frederick Halifax


Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too. ~Anton Chekhov, Ivanov


He changed sunset into sunrise. ~Clement of Alexandria


The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. ~Thomas Hardy


Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon. ~The Simpsons by Matt Groening, spoken by the character Lisa


Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. ~Jacques Barzun


You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself. ~Alan Alda


God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" ~William A. Ward


The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. ~Albert Einstein


Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. ~Marcus Aurelius


Catching a yellow-jacket in your shirt at seventy miles per hour can double your vocabulary. ~Author Unknown


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Perhaps there should be one day a week when you tackle your "Things I Gotta Undo" list. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious. ~Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard


There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly. ~Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek


History is merely gossip. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan