Sayings about Children:

When I see the motherly airs of my little daughters when playing with their puppets, I cannot but flatter myself that their husbands and children will he happy in the possession of such wives and mothers.
Joseph Addison
If the affection or aptness of the children be extraordinary, then it is good not to cross it.
Francis Bacon
Alas, my lord, my life is not a thing
Worthy your noble thoughts! ’Tis not a life,
’Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away.
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Good Christian people! here lies for you an inestimable loan: take all heed thereof; in all carefulness employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.
Thomas Carlyle
Did the man enjoy
In after life, the visions of the boy?
George Crabbe
When the man you see
You find him what you saw the boy would be,
Disguis’d a little; but we still behold
What pleased, and what offended us of old.
George Crabbe
The man you see through life retain’d
The boy’s defects, his virtues too remain’d.
George Crabbe
I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.
Charles Dickens
By sports like these are all their cares beguil’d;
The sports of children satisfy the child.
Oliver Goldsmith
It requires a critical nicety to find out the genius or the propensions of a child.
Roger L’Estrange
Children should always be heard, and fairly and kindly answered, when they ask after anything they would know, and desire to be informed about. Curiosity should be as carefully cherished in children as other appetites suppressed.
John Locke
Children are travellers newly arrived in a strange country; we should therefore make conscience not to mislead them.
John Locke
He that is about children should study their nature and aptitudes: what turns they easily take, and what becomes them; what their native stock is, and what it is fit for.
John Locke

If a child, when questioned for anything, directly confess, you must commend his ingenuity, and pardon the fault, be it what it will.
John Locke
To keep him at a distance from falsehood, and cunning, which has always a broad mixture of falsehood,—this is the fittest preparation of a child for wisdom.
John Locke
When one is sure it will not corrupt or effeminate children’s minds, and make them fond of trifles, I think all things should be contrived to their satisfaction.
John Locke
I am sure children would be freer from diseases if they were not crammed so much as they are by fond mothers, and were kept wholly from flesh the first three years.
John Locke
Silly people commend tame, unactive children, because they make no noise, nor give them any trouble.
John Locke
I would not have children much beaten for their faults, because I would not have them think bodily pain the greatest punishment.
John Locke
If the mind be curbed and humbled too much in children; if their spirits be abused and broken too much by too strict an hand over them; they lose all their vivacity and industry.
John Locke
Children, even when they endeavour their utmost, cannot keep their minds from straggling.
John Locke
If improvement cannot be made a recreation, they must be let loose to the childish play they fancy, which they should be weaned from by being made surfeit of it.
John Locke
The main thing to be considered in every action of a child is how it will become him when he is bigger, and whither it will lead him when he is grown up.
John Locke
A little model the master wrought,
Which should be to the larger plan
What the child is to the man.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations.
John Milton
The childhood shews the man,
As morning shews the day.
John Milton
To season them, and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education should be read to them.
John Milton
As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
John Milton
I seem, for my own part, to see the benevolence of the Deity more clearly in the pleasures of very young children than in anything in the world.
William Paley
Unruly children make their sire stoop.
William Shakespeare
The pleasure that some fathers feed upon
Is my strict fast,—I mean my children’s looks.
William Shakespeare
A little bench of heedless bishops here,
And there a chancellor in embryo.
William Shenstone
They who provide much wealth for their children, but neglect to improve them in virtue, do like those who feed their horses high, but never train them to the manage.
Socrates
Some who have been corrupt in their morals have yet been infinitely solicitous to have their children piously brought up.
Robert South
A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks.
Robert Southey
Call not that man wretched who, whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
Robert Southey
All those instances of charity which usually endear each other, sweetness of conversation, affability, frequent admonition, all signification of love, tenderness, care, and watchfulness, must be expressed towards children.
Jeremy Taylor
By frequent conversing with him, and scattering short apothegms, and little pleasant stories, and making useful applications of them, his son was in his infancy taught to abhor vanity and vice as monsters.
Izaak Walton
The child is father of the man.
William Wordsworth
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Authors by sayings about children: Joseph Addison, Francis Bacon, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Thomas Carlyle, George Crabbe, Charles Dickens, Oliver Goldsmith, Roger L’Estrange, John Locke, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Milton, William Paley, William Shakespeare, Socrates, Robert South, Jeremy Taylor, Izaak Walton, William Wordsworth.
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