Blaise Pascal Quotes

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

You must have been a beautiful baby, 'Cos baby just look at you now.

A babe is fed with milk and praise.

The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff and blow himself till he bursts with windy adulation at the heels of the laureled ox.

Life expects us to make a reasonable amount of progress in a reasonable amount of time. That's why they make those second grade chairs so small.

Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.

The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.

No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.

A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.

Play is really the work of childhood.

When you're quite young, your imagination's quite free.

Stay a child while you can be a child.

To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences.

The little suckings and smackings of the perversions are the sounds of joyous infancy.

Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers.

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.

When I was a baby I had no teeth. I couldn't get a job and I couldn't eat meat.

Childhood has no necessary connection with age.

Men and women are but children of a larger growth.

Comfort is everything. You start doing something and you want it to be perfect right away, but most babies are born ugly and then they shake it out and you get beautiful toddlers.

The most rewarding part about being a dad is just looking at children who didn't exist at some point. The first time you saw them, they were the size of a quarter, in a sonogram, and now they can pour orange juice and yell at each other.

Progress is the mother of problems.