Every age and degree of understanding should have its proper measure of discipline. With regard to boys and adolescents, therefore, or those who cannot understand the seriousness of the penalty of excommunication, whenever such as these are delinquent let them be subjected to severe fasts or brought to terms by harsh beatings, that they may be cured.
My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent.
In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
Rock 'n' roll smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written, for the most part, by cretinous goons. And, by means of its almost imbecilic reiteration, and sly, lewd and in plain fact, dirty lyrics. . . it manages to be the martial music of every side-burned delinquent on the face of the earth.
Rambunctious and delinquent dogs become angelic when sitting.
By the time I got to high school I knew what I was gonna do. Mainly because I looked around and saw there wasn't much else I was able to do. I was a criminal. I was a juvenile delinquent.
Being a complete juvenile delinquent helped me grow up a little.
I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.
I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.
A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy.
I doubt I would ever be missed. Noted absent, charged delinquent, reprimanded but never missed.
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.