funny quotes and sayings for teenagers

I am woman! I am invincible! I am pooped! ~Author Unknown


There are no facts, only interpretations. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. ~T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1926


To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one. ~Chinese Saying


Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants. ~Kevin James


Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975


Pun: the humorous use of words, playing on similarities in sound or differences in meaning. Example: "Beginning gardeners work by trowel and error."


The fluttering of a butterfly's wings can effect climate changes on the other side of the planet. ~Paul Erlich


Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting. I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too. ~Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky


When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part. ~Laurence Olivier


A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows. ~George Bernard Shaw


A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. ~Carl Sandburg


The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life. ~Robert Maclver


Vacation: a period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need. ~Author Unknown


Carry laughter with you wherever you go. ~Hugh Sidey


A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. ~Judith Martin


Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. ~S.J. Perelman


Time is the wisest counsellor of all. ~Pericles


Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. ~James Matthew Barrie