Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.
Dave Barry,
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 09:59 pm Post Subject:
One of the things that keeps you from dropping them in the nearest volcano is that you had to work too hard to get them. You had to cry, you had to scream, you had to sweat, you had to cuss out health care officials, and when that's all over with, you'll be willing to put up with a lot more from your kids.
Barbara Hall
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 10:00 pm Post Subject:
I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell?
Matt Groening,
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 10:02 pm Post Subject:
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. Rowling
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 10:04 pm Post Subject:
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Oscar Wilde,
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 10:05 pm Post Subject:
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.
W. Somerset Maugham
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 10:06 pm Post Subject:
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
Andre Gide
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 10:07 pm Post Subject:
I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.
Socrates
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 09:58 pm Post Subject:
Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.
Dave Barry,
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 09:59 pm Post Subject:
One of the things that keeps you from dropping them in the nearest volcano is that you had to work too hard to get them. You had to cry, you had to scream, you had to sweat, you had to cuss out health care officials, and when that's all over with, you'll be willing to put up with a lot more from your kids.
Barbara Hall
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 10:00 pm Post Subject:
I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell?
Matt Groening,
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 10:02 pm Post Subject:
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. Rowling
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 10:04 pm Post Subject:
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Oscar Wilde,
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 10:05 pm Post Subject:
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.
W. Somerset Maugham
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 10:06 pm Post Subject:
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
Andre Gide
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 10:07 pm Post Subject:
I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.
Socrates
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