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Children Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own…
- Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have…
- How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as…
- In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever…
- Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for…
- Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.
- Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness:…
- Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do…
- Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
- Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavours to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less…
- Dr Blair . . . asked . . . whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such poems [Ossian] .…
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
- Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.'… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits… — Ezra Taft Benson
- The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh
- The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the… — Frederick Lenz
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster