An Evening Prayer

France is a dog-hole. - William Shakespeare

Sleeping dogs bark the loudest. - Archie Bunker

Inspiration is remembering the future. - Unknown

The view only changes for the lead dog. - Norman O. Brown

A dog in desperation will leap over a wall. - Unknown

Inspiration exists, but it must find you working. - Pablo Picasso

Kids don't remember their best day of television. - Unknown

Children are one third of our population and all of our future. - Unknown

The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two. - Maurice Maeterlinck

I continue to stay young, right? I produce children, I stay young. - Donald Trump

When I was a child what I wanted to be when I grew up was an invalid. - Quentin Crisp

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. - Benjamin Disraeli

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much. - Marian W. Edelman

Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas. - Kin Hubbard

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. - Mark Twain

may I be I is the only prayer - not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong. - e e cummings

It's not that age brings childhood back again. Age merely shows what children we remain. - Goethe

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. - Florida Scott-Maxwell

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx

All kids are trouble, Edith. And I don't wanna spend my reclining years trying to raise another one. - Archie Bunker

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer. - Saadi

Here lies my past.
Good-bye I have kissed it;
Thank you, kids.
I wouldn’t have missed it. - Ogden Nash

Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have remained a virgin." - Lillian Carter

I want my kids to have the things in life that I never had when I was growing up. Things like beards and chest hair. - Jarod Kintz

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. - Sam Levenson

Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children. - Bill Hicks

We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet, so we bought a dog. It's cheaper and you get more feet. - Rita Rudner

In most homes, the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. - Evan Esar

Every time a child says, "I don't believe in fairies," there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. - Sir James M. Barrie

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned. - Fay Weldon

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely. - Mary Pickford

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner. - Ben Bergor

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me. - Agatha Trunchbull

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. - Antoine de Saint-Expurey

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. - Mark Twain

When I know that, if I have no inspiration whatsoever, when I come and I just feel empty, I have nothing, I know that I can still play the scene. - Christopher Walken

If you never want to see a man again, just tell him, "I love you. I want to marry you. I want to have children." They leave skid marks. - Rita Rudner

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. - Bill Vaughan

Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to be more like them. - Seymour Papert