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Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby.
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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.
- Robert Orben

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
- Robert Orben

Children are all foreigners.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
- Dick Cavett, US comedian & television host (1936 - )

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
- Fran Lebowitz, US writer and humorist (1950 - )

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
- Fran Lebowitz, US writer and humorist (1950 - )

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.
- W. Somerset Maugham, English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
- Groucho Marx, US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 - 1977)

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
- Groucho Marx, US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 - 1977)

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
- P. J. O'Rourke, US humorist & political commentator (1947 - )

CP 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, French writer (1900 - 1944)

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)

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.
- Dorothy Parker, US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967)

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
- Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
- Peter Ustinov, English actor & author (1921 - 2004)

Never have children, only grandchildren.
- Gore Vidal, US author & dramatist (1925 - )

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
- Bill Watterson, US cartoonist (1958 - )

CP The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
- Sam Levenson, (1911 - 1980)

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it isTo have a thankless child!
- William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
- Norman Douglas

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
- Robert Byrne

Be gentle with the young.
- Juvenal, Roman poet & satirist (55 AD - 127 AD)

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
- Robertson Davies

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
- Bruce Barton

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
- John J. Plomp

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
- Mary MacCracken

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
- Rabbinical Saying

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
- Anna Quindlen, (1953 - )

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.
- John Gray

Our children change us... whether they live or not.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, US science fiction author

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, US science fiction author

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, US science fiction author

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.
- Lawana Blackwell

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.
- Lawana Blackwell

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.
- Daniel Raeburn

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Protestant theologian & anti-Nazi activist (1906 - 1945)

CP There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
- Anatole Broyard

CP The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
- King Edward VIII, British king 1936 (1894 - 1972)