“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
“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
“There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child. — Isaac Asimov 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
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
“A child doesn't have to be a prodigy. The only thing that matters is that he should't become 'stuck' in childishness” — Andrei Tarkovsky 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
What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
For me, it's very childish to tour on a train. And I think that's a powerful quality, to inspire childishness. — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
You must never lose that touch of childishness. You need it if you wish to write for children, if you wish to… — Carolyn Haywood 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
“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
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
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
“On Three Ways of Writing for Children”: When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“Whereas, in the west, individuality and drive are considered positive qualities, they are not seen the same way, in Japan. In that… — Alexei Maxim Russell 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
“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
“Many adults have not attained maturity — have not mastered being independent, self-motivated individuals capable of tending their own emotional needs and… — Gabor Maté 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
“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
Easier to change, than to suffer. Grow out of your childishness.That is all. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Childishness? I think it's the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. I mean, there's a certain something that you retain.… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
By turning our culture over to the spectacle of child stars and their growing pains, we simply wind up taking their childishness… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Mais c'est renfantillage - this is childishness!' we heard de Grandin pant as we closed in and sought a chance to seize… — Seabury Quinn Copy Share Image
