Humor Children Adults Quotes

#1. As children we are taught, "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me!" As adults we teach those same words to our own children while simultaneously we sue one another for defamation or verbal assault. Ah, the naked leading the blind.

Bryan Oftedahl

#2. The cameras were electronic monsters, moving with them as they walked and staring with one big, perverted eye.

Chelsie Shock

#3. Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.

Bill Watterson

#4. He was a good storyteller, but he told the kind of stories that made children run away from the village and adults look for a length of rope and some soap.

Sorin Suciu

#5. There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul's not properly responsible.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#6. [C]hildren were a much more difficult audience than adults because no on had yet had a chance to teach them that it was better to be polite than honest.

Patricia Briggs

#7. Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These are simple historical facts intelligible to all adults, most children, and some of your more discerning domesticated animals. But not ... to Bill O

Keith Olbermann

#8. I think there are probably just as many adults who would miss the humor of my books, if not more, as there are children.

Daniel Handler

#9. To make a poem, take one newspaper, one pair of scissors, snip the words one by one and put them in a bag. Shake gently, draw them out at random, and copy them conscientiously ... DADA est mort. DADA est idiot. Vive DADA!

Tristan Tzara

#10. If you want to investigate, we will be willing to assist.

Zhu Rongji

#11. You and I both know that love is for children,' he said. 'We're adults. Compatibility is for adults.'
'Compatibility is for my Bluetooth and my car,' Teresa replied. 'Only they get along just fine, and my car never makes my bluetooth feel like shit.

Maggie Stiefvater

#12. Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.

Barack Obama

#13. A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.

Benjamin Butler

#14. Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.

Frederick Buechner

#15. It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

Vernon Howard

#16. I was always very determined, as was my husband, that we wouldn't let any of our children act when they were young.

Jane Asher

#17. children spend their time for they think they have more time; adults cry over their time for they see they have less time

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah