Top Ten Quirky Quotations About Children

The Top Ten

1 The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own. (Katharine Whitehorn)

2 I fear the seventh granddaughter and fourteenth grandchild becomes a very uninteresting thing, for it seems to me to go on like the rabbits in Windsor Park! (Queen Victoria)

3 Every luxury was lavished on you: atheism, breast-feeding, circumcision. (Joe Orton)

4 You spend the first two years of their life teaching them to walk and talk. Then you spend the next sixteen years telling them to sit down and shut up. (Anonymous)

And after that, we have a neutralization, they now know when to walk and when to sit down (probably)

5 I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. (Phyllis Diller)

6 It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman. (Alexandre Dumas)

7 A baby is defined as a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. (Ronald Knox)

8 Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. (Oscar Wilde)

9 All bachelors love dogs, and we would love children just as much if they could be taught to retrieve. (P. J. O'Rourke)

10 Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit. (Elizabeth Gilbert)

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