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The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy

Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?

- E. B. Browning

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

- Anonymous

A little curly-headed, good-for-nothing, And mischief-making monkey from his birth.

- Lord Byron

Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.

- R. H. Dana

Children should be seen and not heard.

- English proverb

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

- English proverb

Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak.

- Benjamin Franklin

There was a little girl, And she had a little curl, Right in the middle of her forehead; When she was good she was very, very good, When she was bad she was horrid.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God.

- Bible

A wise son maketh a glad father.

- Bible

It is a wise child that knows his own father.

- Homer

Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

- Matthew

The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day.

- John Milton

The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in breaking.

- Old Nursery Rhyme

The wildest colts make the best horses.

- Plutarch

Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.

- Bible

How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.

- Samuel Woodworth

I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.

- John Hay

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

- William Shakespeare

It is very nice to think The world is full of meat and drink With little children saying grace In every Christian kind of place.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

- Oscar Wilde

The child is father of the man.

- Wordsworth William