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Mark Twain Quotes about Children

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The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Sweet, Children, Teaching

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

The best minds will tell you that when a man has begotten a child he is morally bound to tenderly care for it, protect it from hurt, shield it from disease, clothe it, feed it, bear with its waywardness, lay no hand upon it save in kindness and for its own good, and never in any case inflict upon it a wanton cruelty. God's treatment of his earthly children, every day and every night, is the exact opposite of all that, yet those best minds warmly justify these crimes, condone them, excuse them, and indignantly refuse to regard them as crimes at all, when he commits them.

Hurt, Kindness, Children

Mark Twain (2017). “MARK TWAIN: 12 Novels, 195 Short Stories, Autobiography, 10 Travel Books, 160+ Essays & Speeches (Illustrated): Including Letters & Biographies – The Complete Works of Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, The Innocents Abroad, Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Life on the Mississippi…”, p.4595, e-artnow

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

Mom, Baby, Children

Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 4, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

Inspirational, Kings, Children

Mark Twain (2005). “The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's "Great Dark" Writings”, p.52, Univ of California Press

Children and fools always speak the truth

Children, Fool, Speak

Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.27, Book Tree

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

Relationship, Children, Mean

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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

Children, Effort, Parent

Always obey your parents - when they are present.

Children, Humorous, Parenting

Mark Twain, Gregg Camfield, Sally Wern Comport (2005). “Mark Twain”, p.31, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

Wise, Children, Lying

Mark Twain (2008). “Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.41, ReadHowYouWant.com

Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at birth. Children in the cradle. School children. Youths and maidens. Fresh adults. Older ones. Men and women of 40. Of 50. Of 60. Of 70. Of 80. Of 100. The command does not distribute its burden equally, and cannot. It is not hard upon the three sets of children.

Children, School, Men

Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.437, Univ of California Press

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

Summer, Education, Children

Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.46, Chartwell

If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.

Children, Men, Population

Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to own (for where women and children are not, men of kindly impulses take up with pets, for they must love something)

Children, Fall, Cat

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3504, Delphi Classics

The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

Children, Idiot, Providence

Mark Twain (2002). “Mark Twain's Book for Bad Boys and Girls”, Mjf Books

Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.

Children, Your Children, Our Children

Children have but little charity for one another's defects

Children, Charity, Littles

Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3587, GENERAL PRESS

No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.

Beautiful, Children, Growing Up

As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of all the inventions of all the gods but it has never suspected it once. There is nothing prettier than its naive and complacent appreciation of itself. It comes out frankly and proclaims without bashfulness or any sign of a blush that it is the noblest work of God. It has had a billion opportunities to know better, but all signs fail with this ass. I could say harsh things about it but I cannot bring myself to do it-it is like hitting a child.

Appreciation, Children, Winning

Mark Twain, Charles Neider (1987). “The outrageous Mark Twain: some lesser-known but extraordinary works : with "Reflections on religion" now in book form for the first time”, Doubleday Books

This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

Children, Book, Years

Mark Twain (2015). “Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc”, p.7, Booklassic

Protestant parents still keep a Bible handy in the house, so that the children can study it, and one of the first things the little boys and girls learn is to be righteous and holy and not piss against the wall. They study those passages more than they study any others, except those which incite to masturbation. Those they hunt out and study in private.

Bible, Girl, Children

Mark Twain (1995). “The Bible According to Mark Twain: Writings on Heaven, Eden, and the Flood”, p.256, University of Georgia Press

It is a shameful thing to insult a child.

Children, Insult, Shameful

There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case of the children, the bears, and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children.

Children, Real, Party

Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2007, GENERAL PRESS

By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently interested; don't know how I got in and can't find the way out, but I'm having a booming time all to myself.Don't know what a Schelgesetzentwurf is, but I keep as excited over it and as worried about it as if it were my own child. I simply live on the Sch.; it is my daily bread. I wouldn't have the question settled for anything in the world.

Children, Reading, Men

I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.

Children, Giving Up, Way

Mark Twain (2016). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.247, Mark Twain

Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.

Children, Two, Compliment

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain's Aquarium: The Samuel Clemens-Angelfish Correspondence, 1905-1910”, p.16, University of Georgia Press

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