From Denny: The holiday season is about children - and sometimes the child in all of us when it comes to gift giving and receiving! When we look through the eyes of a child we can view the world from a simpler place, a landscape of wonderment. And children often speak up with the funniest perspective on a situation that is so unexpected - and undeniably true - it makes us laugh.
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Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already. - Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères, 1688
The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old. - Joan Kerr, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, 1957
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. - Edgar W. Howe
There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. - Frank A. Clark Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime. - Red Skelton
Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. - Phyllis Diller
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. - Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969
Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun. - Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything. - Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone Scelto Do your kids a favor - don't have any. - Robert Orben
There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age. - Benjamin Spock, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 1945
A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to. - Robert Brault
It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six. - John W. Gardner and Francesca Gardner Reese
What is a home without children? Quiet. - Henny Youngman
While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about. - Angela Schwindt
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. - Margaret Atwood
The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five. - Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook, 1985
In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. - Robert Benchley
A child is a curly dimpled lunatic. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
A little girl is sugar and spice and everything nice - especially when she's taking a nap. - Anonymous
Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. - Anonymous (maybe Art Linkletter?)
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Like fruit, children are sweetest just before they turn bad. - Dena Groquet
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. - George Bernard Shaw
Boy, n.: a noise with dirt on it. - Not Your Average Dictionary
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next. - Franklin P. Jones
In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults. - Thomas Szasz
You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. - Rabindranath Tagore
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. - Fran Lebowitz
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. - John W. Whitehead, The Stealing of America, 1983
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford
A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. - Anonymous
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. - Harold Hulbert
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up. - Christopher Morley
A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often. - Anonymous
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. - Franklin P. Jones
We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. - Stacia Tauscher
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