Gentle Jesus, meek and mild,
Look upon a little child,
Pity my simplicity,
Suffer me to come to thee.
CHARLES WESLEY (1707–1788)

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there’s always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains; that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564–1616)

Did you know drunkenness is the ruin of a person? It is premature old age. It is temporary death.

First the man—takes the drink, then the drink—takes the man.
JAPANESE PROVERB

Drunkenness is temporary suicide; the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

Drinking is the refuge of the weak; it is crutches for lame ducks. Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.

Alcohol does not drown care, but waters it and makes it grow faster
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706–1790