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"It is better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and resolve all doubt."--Abraham Lincoln
"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact."--George Eliot
"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute."--Josh Billings
"Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged."--Colossians 3:21
"And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord."--Ephesians 6:4
"For the Lord hath given the father honour over the children, and hath confirmed the authority of the mother over the sons."--Ecclesiasticus 3:2
"Some man holdeth his tongue, because he hath not to answer: and some keepeth silence, knowing his time."--Ecclesiasticus 20:6
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The most precious things in speech are pauses."--Ralph Richardson
"Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence."--Spanish proverb
"Foolishness always results when the tongue outraces the brain."--Unknown
"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."--Orson Card
"If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders."--Abigail Van Buren
"Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones."--Proverbs 16:24
"For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,"--II Timothy 3:2
"Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts."--Psalms 28:3
"And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children."--Isaiah 54:13
"But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;"--I Peter 1:15
"Children have more need of models than critics."--Joseph Joubert
"The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."--Theodore Roosevelt
"A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not."--Anonymous
"We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given."--Midge Decter
"As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we ought to know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism."--Germaine Greer, author
"In our defense of biology and its mystique we are blind to the dangers of power. Women as the guardians of children posses great power. They are the molders of their children’s personalities and the arbiters of their development."--Ann Oakley
"I flung my tongue round like a cat-o’-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got."--Sylvia Ashton-Warner
"Admitting that it is the profession of our sex to teach, we perceive the mother to be first in point of precedence, in degree of power, in the faculty of teaching, and in the department allotted. For in point of precedence she is next to the Creator, in power over her pupil, limitless and without competitor."--Lydia Howard Sigourney
"Conduct yourself towards your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves towards you."--Isocrates, letter to Demonicus
"The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons."--Theognis
"A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark."--Chinese proverb
"Kindness effects more than severity."--Aesop
"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the stories which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."--Socrates in Plato's The Republic
"Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right."--Plato
"From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle."--Plato
"Children must respect their parents at home, respect strangers in the streets, and respect themselves when they are all alone."--Demetrius of Phaleron
"Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will."--Aristotle, Politics
"There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience."--Aristotle
"What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction."--Epictetus, Discourses
"If we don't mold clay, it does not become a ceramic."--Xenophon
QUOTATIONS KEVIN
"Teach your children to put God first and to soothe themselves and you are a successful parent."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"If it's your job to relieve your child's frustration, then it's your child's job to annoy you."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"It is not a parent's job to control their children, rather, it is a parent's job to teach their children to control themselves."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
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