“O, wither’d is the garland of the war!
The soldier’s pole is fall'n; young boys and girls
Are level now with men; the odds is gone,
And there is nothing left remark
Beneath the visiting moon.”

As quoted, Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, Act III, (1623)

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Cleopatra VII10

last active pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt -69–-30 BC

Đặng Trần Côn (1710–1745) writer

Source: Chinh phụ ngâm, Lines 97–100

“The young boy whistles, hurrying down the street,
The young girl hums beneath her breath.
One goes out to beauty, and does not know it.
And one goes out to death.”

Conrad Aiken (1889–1973) American novelist and poet

The House of Dust (1916 - 1917)

“You are a human boy, my young friend. A human boy. O glorious to be a human boy!… O running stream of sparkling joy To be a soaring human boy!”

Charles Dickens book Bleak House

Source: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 19

“In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write.”

Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet

Source: Poetry and Craft (1965), p. 89

“Again there is a trite saying that good Soldiers never think. Though this may not be true, yet it explains the cautionary advice that War is too serious a matter to be left to Soldiers and that a very good Soldier should not be in charge of the War Office. His place should be on the battle field where he is unsurpassable. Actually, "Young men don't make War, they fight them. Old men make Wars and survive them. They are immensely brave about other people's sons," says Nicholas Montsarrat. They are the ones that jest at scars, who never felt a wound.”

Peter de Noronha (1897–1970) Indian businessman

The Pageant of Life (1964), On Soldiers

“During all my wandering through two decades and two continents, I've found nothing more pathetic than the universal misery of young boys trying to charm young girls.”

Stephen Vizinczey (1933) Hungarian-Canadian writer

In Praise of Older Women (1965)

“One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.”

Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer

“Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) American feminist, writer, commercial artist, lecturer and social reformer

Ch. 5 http://books.google.com/books?id=94EEAAAAYAAJ&q=%22achieve+and+attain+young+girls+plan+for+whom+they+will+achieve+and+attain%22&pg=PA87#v=onepage <br class="br">Women and Economics (1898)