We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up

Quote by Christopher Morley

Topics: Children Quotes, Growing Up Quotes, Growth Quotes, Luck Quotes

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five...

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five...

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She...

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She...

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit...

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit...

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not...

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not...

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that...

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that...

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your...

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your...

We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up

We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really...

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really...

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the...

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the...

All students can learn.

All students can learn.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.