A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid.
Children Quotes
The Science of Government it is my duty to study, more than all other Sciences: the Art of Legislation and Administration and Negotiation, ought to take place, indeed to exclude in a manner all other Arts. I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematics and Philosophy. My sons […]
When I was a boy, my family took great care with our snapshots. We really planned them. We made compositions. We posed in front of expensive cars, homes that weren’t ours. We borrowed dogs. Almost every family picture taken of us when I was young had a different borrowed dog in it.
If there were no other reasons (though we know there are as many as stars), this alone would be the value of children: the way they remind you of the comfort of simplicity. Their compelling common sense. Their accessibility and their honesty. Their lack of pretense.
Perhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that has to do with death and sorrow, to give them a good time at all hazards on the assumption that the ills of life will come soon enough. Young people themselves often resent […]
There are some other that account wife and children but as bills of charges.
All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors, of lights, and darkness, of movement, of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up.
If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parent. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
He that hath wife and children, hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue, or mischief.
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
