quotes for teenagers about life

Never eat more than you can lift. ~Miss Piggy



Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart... filled it, too, with melody that would last forever. ~Bess Streeter Aldrich



One almost expects one of the players to peer into the monitor and politely request viewers to refrain from munching so loudly on cheese and crackers while the golfers are trying to reach the greens. ~Pete Alfano



War is never a solution; it is an aggravation. ~Benjamin Disraeli



Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it. ~Ovid, Tristia



Thinking is what a great many people think they are doing when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. ~William James



Unraveling proverbs is a suitable puzzle for an old man. I put pieces in order and build up a kind of Utopian castle. ~Matti Kuusi



Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. ~Henry David Thoreau



Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. ~John Ciardi



Marriage ...the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue. ~Mrs Patrick Campbell



Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb



We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. ~D.H. Lawrence



I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like a black shade. Only for me, the long perspective of shades that set off one box from the next day had suddenly snapped up, and I could see day after day after day glaring ahead of me like a white, broad, infinitely desolate avenue. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar



A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb



Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. ~Joseph Addison, The Spectator



Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. ~Otto Von Bismark



Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956



Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love. ~Author Unknown



Many people quit looking for work when they find a job. ~Author Unknown



Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment. ~Heywood Hale Broun