Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by
adults to children, and by children to adult
View quotes by Thomas SzaszThe trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting
adults.
View quotes by Robert NozickI never really had a childhood. I was around
adults all the time. My favourite book when I was eight was Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex - But Were Afraid to Ask. I was not afraid to ask.
View quotes by Drew BarrymoreAduation day is tough for
adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.
View quotes by Erma BombeckAdults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
View quotes by Elias CanettiNinety eight percent of the
adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
View quotes by Lily TomlinAdults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.
View quotes by Paula PoundstoneAdults don't want to see millionaire idiots like Ant and Dec on the telly.
View quotes by Dennis WatermanThere are few successful
adults who were not first successful children.
View quotes by Alexander ChaseIt is healthier, in any case, to write for the
adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.
View quotes by Alice WalkerMy desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting
adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
View quotes by Fran LebowitzWhy should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all
adults of every age?
View quotes by Erich FrommPart of the reason for the ugliness of
adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
View quotes by George OrwellUntil the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of
adults.
View quotes by Gore VidalWe're all on the bus to Doncaster. I've booked a 40-seater... it will have to have a loo because I know the youngsters will all want to pee every five minutes! That's if they can get to it ahead of the
adults who will be enjoying Champagne every step of the way!
View quotes by Frankie DettoriWith so many mind-bytes to be downloaded, so many mental codons to be replicated, it is no wonder that child brains are gullible, open to almost any suggestion, vulnerable to subversion, easy prey to Moonies, Scientologists and nuns. Like immune-deficient patients, children are wide open to mental infections that
adults might brush off without effort.
View quotes by Richard DawkinsNo, no, no, Lisa. If
adults don't like their jobs they don't go on strike. They just go in and do it really half-assed.
View quotes by Homer SimpsonWhilst I am not advocating the censorship and prohibition of such literature for
adults, there must be safeguards in place to protect minors from this obscene material [on wanting to move 'lads mags' to the top shelf]
View quotes by Claire Curtis-ThomasBlack America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of
adults.
View quotes by Maggie GallagherThe booger jokes. And my editor always takes out four letter words when I put then in the children's books. And the sex parts [on the difference between kids and
adults books]
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