Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next. - Franklin P. Jones

Children make you want to start life over. - Muhammad Ali

Boy, n.: a noise with dirt on it. - Not Your Average Dictionary

I am fond of children - except boys. - Lewis Carroll

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. - George Bernard Shaw

Like fruit, children are sweetest just before they turn bad. - Dena Groquet

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. - Author Unknown

A little girl is sugar and spice and everything nice - especially when she's taking a nap. - Author Unknown

A child is a curly dimpled lunatic. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. - Robert Benchley

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

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind. - François Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. - Margaret Atwood

While we try to teach our children all about life,

Our children teach us what life is all about.

- Angela Schwindt

What is a home without children? Quiet. - Henny Youngman

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

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