quotes about children

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary


Statistics can be made to prove anything - even the truth. ~Author Unknown


When you're wearing a green tuxedo, you dance where they tell you. ~Colonel Potter, "Too Many Cooks," original airdate 17 September 1979, written by Dennis Koenig, directed by Charles S. Dubin


Patriotism, the virtue of the vicious. ~Oscar Wilde


He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. ~Joseph Joubert


When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. ~Seneca


It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class. ~Author Unknown


The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~G.B. Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903


Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. ~Charles Sumner


No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman. ~Frank O'Connor


The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims


If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Over the Teacups, 1891


The funny thing about firemen is, night and day, they are always firemen. ~Gregory Widen, Backdraft


A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. ~Francis Bacon, Essays: Of Atheism, 1625


Coffee: The first peripheral! ~Author Unknown


Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. ~Author Unknown


Your stomach shouldn't be a waist basket. ~Author Unknown


God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them. ~Richard J. Needham


Alimony - The ransom that the happy pay to the devil. ~H.L. Mencken, "Sententiae," A Book of Burlesques, 1920


I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. ~Anais Nin