Childhood: The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth -- two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)  - The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
Anonymous 

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
Peter Ustinov 

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

Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
Mary Alice Messenger 

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
Socrates (470-399 B.C.) 

Every child is born a genius.
Richard Buckminster Fuller 

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) 

Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
Arthur C. Coxe 

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
Carol Burnett