Children

(42 votes)   The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it''

Jean Jacques Rousseau
1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist

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(42 votes)   We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Stacia Tauscher

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(42 votes)   You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.

Gypsy Smith

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(41 votes)   Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Lady Bird Johnson

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(41 votes)   The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(41 votes)   The only moral lesson which is suited for a child, the most important lesson for every time of life, is this: ''Never hurt anybody.''

Denis Breeze

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(41 votes)   Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus
50-120, Stoic Philosopher

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(40 votes)   A child is fed with milk and praise.

Mary Lamb

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(40 votes)   By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

Charles Wadsworth

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(40 votes)   Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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(40 votes)   Families with babies and families without are so sorry for each other.

Ed Howe

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(40 votes)   Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

Abraham Kaplan

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(40 votes)   Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.

Source Unknown

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(40 votes)   Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half -- especially if he has a teenage daughter.

Guy Lombardo

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(40 votes)   Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

Plato

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