“When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“When one came to know them it was surprising how childish grown people could be.” — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
“I’m sorry but I will manage my anger when you manage your childishness.” — Nina Ardianti Copy Share Image
“Do not kill the childishness inside you. It is the state that connects you to God.” — Alok Jagawat Copy Share Image
“More absurdity in myself, endless absurdities. My own childishness sometimes amused me. Would it amuse others? Were others like myself, hopelessly childish?” — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“Arrogance was unattractive enough when it was attached to true talent or brilliance. Attached to childishness, it was just plain irritating.” — Erica Spindler Copy Share Image
The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity. — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being immature is one thing, but acting childish is a whole different category. Immaturity is a phase, childishness is a choice. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Tough men are tough not because they want to be tough, but because they have to be tough. Outgrow the adolescent fawning… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Trump taught us how easily seemingly serious people can become profoundly idiotic. He turned career politicians into circus freaks.” — Thor Benson Copy Share Image
“Is it right to be watching strangers in a play / in this strangest of theatres? / What childishness is it that… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
If a man is to become fully himself - and this is not something that happens automatically just because you arrive at… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
“Well, I ask the impartial reader, is it not childishness, and more than that, dangerous childishness? Is it not inevitable that we… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
One cannot overstate the childishness of the ideas that feed and stir the masses. Real ideas must as a rule be simplified… — Sebastian Haffner Copy Share Image
C. S. Lewis pointed out that some people are angry with God for His not existing, and others for His existing but… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
When you're old enough to write a book for children, by then you'll have become a grown up and have lost all… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“Childishness and childlikeness are two very different things. To know a childlike person, is to know a very mature person; to know… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
In trying to explain our political paralysis, analysts cite President Obama's tactical missteps, the obstinacy of congressional Republicans, rising partisanship in Washington,… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I wondered what a man I had encountered the day before on the plane en route to Chicago's O'Hare airport would have… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
“Human beings go through a 'camel phase' during which they carry all the foolish prejudices society burdens them with. Then comes the… — O.Z. Livaneli Copy Share Image
“I am not a simpleton', he said, 'nor am I a childish old man. I dislike childishness and all such rubbish. I… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“If you'd only let me come by myself, none of this would have happened. Having you around makes everything worse.' She buried… — Natalie Standiford Copy Share Image
“We had bought a kilo of cherries and we were eating them as we walked along. We were both insufferably childish and… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or right. Black or… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“It is the importance of this quality of generosity in fiction that requires a measure of childishness in the writer. People who… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“Obedient to no man, dependent only on weather and season, without a goal before them or a roof above them, owning nothing,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“How angry he had been at Sadie! How much righteous passion he had devoted to holding this grudge! He had thought himself… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Childish despair: this woman I meet in my dream, fall passionately in love with and give my address to - I immediately… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Im sorry but I will manage my anger when you manage your childishness. — Nina Ardianti Copy Share Image
How many of us really appreciate the childishness of the unconscious mind? — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
“I felt like a child. I was a child. I could blow things up but I couldn't put things back together.” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
