maria montessori quotes on children

I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. They fight for honor at the first challenge, make love with no moral restraint, and they do not for all their marvelous instincts appear to know about death. Being such wonderfully uncomplicated beings, they need us to do their worrying. ~George Bird Evans, Troubles with Bird Dogs



Accidents hurt - safety doesn't. ~Author Unknown



If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee and follow the comings and goings of my pen -sometimes effacing, with an unintentional stroke of her paw, lines of whose tenor she disapproved. ~Pierre Loti



Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. ~Robert Orben



Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Few rich men own their property; the property owns them. ~Robert Ingersoll, speech, New York, 29 October 1896



Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb



Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners. ~Laurence Sterne



Children often have imaginary playmates. I suspect that half of them are really their guardian angels. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



He completed the universe, he achieved the physical unity of the globe. ~Lamartine



Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. ~Immanuel Kant



There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it. ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1898



The attention span of a computer is only as long as its power cord. ~Author Unknown



A faithful man shall abound with blessings; but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. ~Proverbs 28:20



Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have, long since, as good as renounced it. ~Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, chapter 4



Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does. ~Steuart Henderson Britt



Everybody's 12 years old in an apple orchard. ~Rachael Ray, Rachael Ray Show, while making autumn stew, original airdate 11 October 2007



It's the most unhappy people who most fear change. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes