Top 20 Quotes on “Children” with Author name and Quote’s Image

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Quotes on Children

Youth is a wonderful thing; what a crime to waste it on children.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic

 

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

Brian Aldiss (b. 1925) British author

 

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, dramatist

 

Don’t take up a man’s time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his.

Ed (E. W.) Howe (1853-1937) American journalist, novelist

There is little use to talk about your child to anyone; other people either have one or haven’t.

Don Herold (1889-1966) American humorous writer, artist

 

The parent who could see his boy as he really is would shake his head and say; “Willy is no good: I’ll sell him.

Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) Canadian humorist, economist

 

There is no sinner like a young saint

AphraBehn (1640-1689) Englis h playwright, poet

 

Before I got married I had six theories about .bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) English poet

 

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist

 

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are the mistakes I made that I don’t want my kids to make.

Jane Fonda (b. 1937) American film actress

 

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

William Penn (1644-1718) religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania

 

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, philosopher

 

Ignorance is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

George Eliot (1819-1880) English novelist

 

Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little, too, sometimes.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author

 

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip?

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)

There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.

Kin (Frank McKinney) Hubbard (1868-1930) American humorist, journalist

 

He followed in his father’s footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.

Nicolas Bentley (1907-1978)

 

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

English Proverb

 

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is To have a thankless child.

Lear, King Lear William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

 

There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them.

Confucius (551-478 BO Chinese sage

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