Children Quotes

Teach your child to hold his tongue, He’ll learn fast enough to speak.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

The type of man devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children. I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

But I am, at heart, with Quintilian in deprecating flogging under any conditions. If then you ask, “What is to be done with boys who respond to no other spur?” My answer is: “What would you do if an ox or an ass strayed into your classroom?” turn him out to the plough or the […]

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

What greater grief can there be for mortals than to see their children dead?

Everywhere in the world, men place all or most of the burden of raising children and maintaining the home on women, but pretend that this burden is not work; they do not reward it as work or count it as work in global accounting, in either developing or industrialized countries.