Child Quotes

• "Oh, would I were a boy again, When life seemed formed of sunny years, And all the heart then knew of pain Was wept away in transient tears!"
  By: Mark Lemon, Oh, Would I Were a Boy Again
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• "Childhood, whose very happiness is love."
  By: Letitia Elizabeth Landon (Mrs. George MacLean), Erinna
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• "A babe is fed with milk and praise."
  By: Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia), The First Tooth, in Charles and Mary Lamb's "Poetry for Children"
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• "But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity). [Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie)."
  By: Jean de la Fontaine, Fables (IX, 2)
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• "Children have neither past nor future; and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present. [Fr., Les enfants n'ont ni passe ni avenir; et, ce qui ne nous arrive guere, ils jouissent du present.]"
  By: Jean de la Bruyere, Les Caracteres (XI)
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• "Let nothing foul to either eye or ear reach those doors within which dwells a boy. [Lat., Nil dictu visuque haec limina tangat Intra quae puer est.]"
  By: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal), Satires (XIV, 44)
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• "Children, ay, forsooth, They bring their own love with them when they come, But if they come not there is peace and rest; The pretty lambs! and yet she cries for more: Why, the world's full of them, and so is heaven-- They are not rare."
  By: Jean Ingelow, Supper at the Mill
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• "Oh, when I was a tiny boy My days and nights were full of joy. My mates were blithe and kind! No wonder that I sometimes sigh And dash the tear drop from my eye To cast a look behind!"
  By: Thomas Hood, Retrospective Review
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• "Another tumble! that's his precious nose!"
  By: Thomas Hood, Parental Ode to My Son
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• "Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace."
  By: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. II, l. 315), (Pope's translation)
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• "It is a wise child that knows his own father. [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]"
  By: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. I, 216), (translated from the Greek by Clarke)
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• "I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne."
  By: John Hay, Little Breeches
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• "But still when the mists of doubt prevail, And we lie becalmed by the shores of age, We hear from the misty troubled shore The voce of children gone before. Drawing the soul to its anchorage."
  By: Bret Harte (Francis Bret Harte), A Greyport Legend (st. 6)
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• "Alas! regardless of their doom, The little victims play; No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day."
  By: Thomas Gray, On a Distant Prospect of Eton College (st. 6)
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• "By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd, The sports of children satisfy the child."
  By: Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller (l. 153)
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• "Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak."
  By: Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard Maxims
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