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Children Quotes by Mark Twain
- Always obey your parents - when they are present.
- I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the…
- It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.
- By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently interested; don't know…
- In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . .…
- Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to…
- If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.
- Children have but little charity for one another's defects
- Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.
- No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.
- If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and furnish…
- Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass…
- As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of all the inventions…
- My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
- The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
- 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…
- Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.
- Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.
- The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.
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