Quotes

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  • There are only two things a child will share willingly — communicable diseases and his mother’s age. – Benjamin Spock

  • I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. – Nancy Mitford

  • Madam, there’s no such thing as a tough child – if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender. – W. C. Fields

  • The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. – Clarence Darrow

  • The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. – Samuel Johnson

  • Only the shallow know themselves. – Oscar Wilde

  • There is a great man, who makes very many feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. – G. K. Chesterton

  • Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing. That’s my way; and there are many victories worse than a defeat. – George Eliot

  • Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all. – Sam Ewing

  • Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein

  • Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. – Mark Twain

  • People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines…. It appears to me, besides, that [such people] can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of…