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A proverb is the child of experience.
Proverbs
English Proverb

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.
Children
English Proverb

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
Children
English Proverb

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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?
Children
Epictetus

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Noble fathers have noble children.
Fathers
Euripides

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When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
Lies and Lying
William Feather

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
Children
Henry Fielding

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It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.
Simplicity
Charles Fillmore

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The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.
The future
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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Let your children go if you want to keep them.
Parents and Parenting
Malcolm S. Forbes

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
Children
Benjamin Franklin

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Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
Manners
Benjamin Franklin

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Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?
Fools and Foolishness
Maurice Freehill

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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Fathers
Sigmund Freud

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.
Children
David Fyfe

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.
Life and Living
Henry Giles

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Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
Age and Aging
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Children
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
Life and Living
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
Deception
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Childhood is a disease -- a sickness that you grow out of.
Childhood
William Golding

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The best training any parent can give a child is to train the child to train himself.
Training
A. P. Gouthey

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A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
Respectability
Billy Graham

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As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it.
Food and Eating
Buddy Hackett

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Perfection is the child of time.
Perfection
Joseph Hall

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun