“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
“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
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
It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child. — Isaac Asimov 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
Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A problem with my novels is that they, from the start, have been infantile and incredibly childish. There are childishness, stupidity, lack… — Karl Ove Knausgard 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
“There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“Perhaps there is nothing wrong with being childish and naïve. Perhaps naivety is simply the unwillingness to learn one’s lesson. It is… — Vironika Tugaleva 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
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
“I am sure you have come across older people who behave like children. They want everything, whine for attention, bitch about the… — Saidi Mdala Copy Share Image
Easier to change, than to suffer. Grow out of your childishness.That is all. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“There’s a huge difference between being childlike and being childish. When we embrace joy and look at the world with fresh eyes… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
