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78 quotesParents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Parents and Parenting
Ogden Nash
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Idleness is the parent of psychology.
Psychology
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
Parents and Parenting
Jean Paul
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Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents shortcomings.
Psychiatry
Laurence J. Peter
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Parents and Parenting
Plato
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
Writers and Writing
Alexander Pope
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Caution is the parent of safety.
Caution
Proverb
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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
Pleasure
Proverb
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Ambition
Edgar Quinet
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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
Parents and Parenting
Arthur Rimbaud
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Parents giving the keys to the car act as if they are giving the keys to the kingdom.
Parents and Parenting
William E. Rothschild
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No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.
Animals
Bertrand Russell
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The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.
Family
William Shakespeare
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Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
Parents and Parenting
Muriel Spark
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
Parents and Parenting
Alvin Toffler
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Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
Impossibility
Mark Twain
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My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.
Parents and Parenting
Mark Twain
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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.
Mistakes
Source Unknown
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The trouble with parents is that by the time they are experienced, they are unemployed.
Parents and Parenting
Source Unknown
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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.
Children
Source Unknown
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We are the people our parents warned us about.
People
Source Unknown
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School is where you go between when your parents can't take you, and industry can't take you.
Education
John Updike
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Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.
Parents and Parenting
Peter Ustinov
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There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
Parents and Parenting
Peter De Vries
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Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
Curiosity
Richard Whately
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun