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Children Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring…
- They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of…
- A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be…
- The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English.
- An altruist is one who would be sincerely sorry to see his neighbor's children devoured by wolves.
- We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is…
- Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
- A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
- The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as…
- It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof…
- The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.
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