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Adults Quotes by Mark Twain
- I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed…
- Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.
- I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homopathic pill, and it took…
- Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at…
- Part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought…
More Adults Quotes
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working,… — Drew Barrymore
- I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to… — Roseanne Barr
- When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it,… — Drew Barrymore
- If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me… — Mario Batali
- There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. — Jean Baudrillard
- What is an adult? A child blown up by age. — Simone de Beauvoir
- The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times. — Martha Beck
- Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young. — Martha Beck
- Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children… — Martha Beck
- An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties. — Pope Benedict XVI