Top 11 Quotes by Carlo Collodi

Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.

Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.

Carlo Collodi

Childhood, Woe, Illness

A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.

Carlo Collodi

Voice, People, Stills

"Fictional character: Jiminy Cricket". "Pinocchio", www.imdb.com. 1940.

Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything.

Carlo Collodi

Puppets, Spoil

Carlo Collodi (1916). “Pinocchio: The Story of a Puppet”

In the Land of Toys, every day, except Sunday, is a Saturday. Vacation begins on the first of January and ends on the last day of December. That is the place for me! All countries should be like it! How happy we should all be!

Carlo Collodi

Country, Sunday, Vacation

Carlo Collodi (2013). “The Adventures of Pinocchio”, p.229, Lulu Press, Inc

Never trust people who promise to make you rich in a day. They are generally crazy swindlers

Carlo Collodi

Crazy, People, Promise

Carlo Collodi, Roberto Innocenti (1988). “The Adventures of Pinocchio Le Avventure Di Pinocchio. English”

What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.

Carlo Collodi

School, What Matters, Lessons

Carlo Collodi (2015). “Pinocchio: The Tale of a Puppet”, p.105, First Avenue Editions

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

Carlo Collodi

Mean, Boys, Poverty

Carlo Collodi, Collodi Nipote (2012). “The Pinocchio Megapack: 4 Classic Puppet Tales”, p.26, Wildside Press LLC

Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.

Carlo Collodi

Father, Night, Long

Carlo Collodi (2013). “The Adventures of Pinocchio”, p.159, Lulu Press, Inc

Today at school I will learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will begin to write, and the day after tomorrow to cipher. Then with my acquirements I will earn a great deal of money, and with the first money I have in my pocket I will immediately buy for my papa a beautiful new cloth coat. But what am I saying? Cloth, indeed! It shall be all made of gold and silver, and it shall have diamond buttons. That poor man really deserves it; for to buy me books and to have me taught he has remained in his shirt sleeves... And in this cold! It is only fathers who are capable of such sacrifices!

Carlo Collodi

Beautiful, Father, Book