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~ A greedy father has thieves for children ~

Serbian Proverb

~ A greedy father has thieves for children ~

Serbian Proverb

~ Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat. ~

Fran Lebowitz

~ Souls made of fire and children of the sun,With whom Revenge is virtue. ~

Edward Young

~ Children are a great comfort in your old age -- and they help you reach it faster, too. ~

Lionel Kauffman

~ The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be. ~

Fred G. Gosman

~ Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God.... ~

Thomas De Quincey

~ I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there. ~

Donna Tartt

~ Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality. ~

Mignon McLaughlin

~ A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart ~

Peggy Noonan

~ Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. ~

Barrie Sir James

~ By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential,not God ~

Gloria Steinem

~ Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised ~

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

~ Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into. ~

Elizabeth Bibesco

~ I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long. ~

Marie Antoinette

~ There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcasticd festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. ~

Jean Baudrillar

~ Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys. Look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death! ~

Sun Tzu

~ Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? ~

Rita Rudner

~ She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes. ~

Goldsmith, Oliver

~ Over the last decade or so 'wars' have been proclaimed, in turn, on teen pregnancy, dropping out, drugs, and most recently violence. The trouble with such campaigns, though, is that they come too late, after the targeted problem has reached epidemic proportions and taken firm root in the lives of the young. They are crisis intervention, the equivalent of solving a problem by sending an ambulance to the rescue rather than giving an inoculation that would ward off the disease in the first place. Instead of more such 'wars,' what we need is to follow the logic of prevention, offering our children the skills for facing life that will increase their chances of avoiding any and all of these fates ~

Daniel Goldman

~ Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry. ~

Democritus

~ Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall ~

Larry Wilde

~ It should be noted that the games of children are not games, and must be considered as their most serious actions. ~

Michel de Montaigne

~ Atheists put on false courage in the midst of their darkness and misaprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark,will sing or whistle to keep their courage. ~

Alexander Pope

~ It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so ~

Ernestine Rose

~ Grandchildren don’t make a man feel old; it’s the knowledge that he’s married to a grandmother. ~

G. Norman Collie

~ An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly. ~

Gene Perret

~ Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy - the mother ~

Claudette Colbert

~ If I would have known that grandchildren were going to be so much fun I would have had them first ~

Bill Laurin

~ Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS. ~

Gene Perret

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