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Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.

John Locke
English empiricist philosopher (1632 - 1704)

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

Bill Cosby
US comedian & television actor (1937 - )

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

James Thurber
US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 - 1961)

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx
US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 - 1977)

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that they just about throw up.

Barbara Bush
US wife of George Bush 1945 (1925 - )

We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

Dora Russell

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

I love children --- especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Nancy Mitford

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant --- and let the air out of their tires.

Dorothy Parker
US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967)

It is really asking too much of a woman to expect her to bring up her husband and her children too.

Lillian Bell

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Ogden Nash
US humorist & poet (1902 - 1971)

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

David Friedman

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Harry S Truman
33rd president of US (1884 - 1972)

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince", 1943
French writer (1900 - 1944)

...adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

Dr. Seuss, (as quoted in his obit in Time)
US author & illustrator (1904 - 1991)

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

Bill Cosby
US comedian & television actor (1937 - )

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)

Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.

Karl Kraus
Austrian author and journalist (1874 - 1936)

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