I am not young enough to know everything.
(Oscar Wilde)

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
(Oscar Wilde)

The child is the father of the man.
(William Wordsworth)

When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic.
(Steven Wright)

We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
(Woodrow Wyatt)

"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them."
(Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time)

"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities."
(Eda J. Le Shan)

"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it."
Antoine de Saint Exupéry)

"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like."
(Philip Larkin)

"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete ... babies are almost the only remaining link with nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring."
(Eda J. Le Shan)

"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them."
(Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance)

"Children spell love...T-I-M-E."
(Dr. Anthony P. Witham)

"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers."
(Socrates)

"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio."
(Joan Rivers)