Children Quotes

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

The burnt child shuns the fire. Until next day.

A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, “Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.”

Children are excellent physiognomists and soon discover their real friends. Luttrell calls them all lunatics and so in fact they are. What is childhood but a series of happy delusions?

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.