Mary Go Round

In youth and beauty wisdom is rare. - Homer

Old men are children for a second time. - Aristophanes

April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. - William Shakespeare

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. - Robertson Davies

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it. - Sigmund Freud

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. - Elaine Heffner

One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world. - Malala Yousafzai

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up. - Christopher Morley

Reality: The leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. - Lily Tomlin

No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction. - American Proverb

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children. - Jim Henson

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. - Red Buttons

In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. - Josh Billings

Women should not have children after 35. Really? 35 children is enough. - Bill Murray

It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. - Rainer M. Rilke

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. - Haim Ginott

Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them. - Rita Rudner

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. - William Feather

The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door. - Demetri Martin

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. - Bo Bennett

Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible. - Bob Harper

Inspiration responds to our attentiveness in various and sometimes unexpected ways. - Wayne W Dyer

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. - John J Plomp

I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them. - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like. - Phyllis Diller

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. - Laurence J Peter

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. - Abigail Van Buren

As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win. - Kara Walker

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read. - Doris Lessing

Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children? - Rod Blagojevich

Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals. - Robert Orben

I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up. - Will Rogers

Grandparent: 1. One who knows that spanking is unnecessary; 2. The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The key to happiness and youth is an unencumbered spirit – whether it comes naturally or whether you have to work hard for it. - Emme Woodhull-Bache

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 think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. - Eleanor Roosevelt

To be a champion, you have to learn to handle stress and pressure. But if you've prepared mentally and physically, you don't have to worry. - Harvey Mackay

Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, and hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kids' therapy. - Michelle Pfeiffer