John Ray Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.

  John Ray

  Children, Mad, Parent

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1855). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Index”, p.4

• Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please.

  John Ray

  Children, Pigeons, Peas

  John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.236

• A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.

  John Ray

  Mother, Children, Blessing

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1855). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Index”, p.117

• Little children, little sorrows; big children, big sorrows.

  John Ray

  Children, Sorrow, Littles

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