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Children Quotes by Ogden Nash
- Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think that their children are naive.
- Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
- Tonight's December thirty-first, something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight,…
- The burnt child, urged by rankling ire, Can hardly wait to get back at the fire.
- But children, hark! Your mother would rather, When you arrived, have been your father.
- A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
- Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think their children are nave.
- Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.
- Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
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