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Children Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
- I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension seems as quick,…
- And as to the Cares, they are chiefly what attend the bringing up of Children; and I would ask any Man who has experienced it,…
- What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
- Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
- A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can never be spent.
- There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's…
- A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a…
- If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other…
- Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, creator of the Universe. That he governs it by his Providence. That he ought to be…
- Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you…
- In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long…
- O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom…
- The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example;…
- What is the use of a new-born child ?
- It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis…
- Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
More Children Quotes
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon