Spoiled Children Quotes

• At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Children, Philosophy, Useless

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.22, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Parent, Faults

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• The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

  Aristophanes

  Love, Respect, Teacher

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• What children need is the conviction that satisfaction can and must be earned. ... Spoiled children do not learn the must.

  Isabel Briggs Myers

  Children, Needs, Satisfaction

  Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (1995). “Gifts differing: understanding personality type”, Davies-Black Publishing

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• Your children need your presence more than your presents.

  Jesse Jackson

  Inspirational, Birthday, Family

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow

  Thomas Bray

  Appreciation, Children, Parenting

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• The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

  Frank A. Clark

  Children, Parenting, Important

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• The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum of our action and thinking, of our science and art, all of it struck me as the overindulgences of a spoiled child.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Children, Thinking

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• The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived.

  Robert Breault

  Children, Childhood, World

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• If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

  Haim Ginott

  Children, Nice, Self Esteem

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• Spare the rod and spoil the child.

  Samuel Butler

  Children, Punishment, Moments

  'Hudibras' pt. 2 (1664), canto 1, l. 843

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• Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can inflict upon all who are within sight or hearing.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Children, Sight, House

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1823). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Popular tales. 1823”, p.258

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• What I’m saying is I think life is staggering and we’re just used to it. We all are like spoiled children no longer impressed with the gifts we’re given—it’s just another sunset, just another rainstorm moving in over the mountain, just another child being born, just another funeral.

  Donald Miller

  Children, Moving, Sunset

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.58, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.

  Robert Grudin

  Time, Children, Real

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Self, People

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• Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Thank You, Time, Children

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• A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

  Robertson Davies

  Childhood, Belief, Spoiled

  Robertson Davies (1992). “The Cornish Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

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• It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.

  Sloan Wilson

  Children, Kindness, Being Ignored

  Sloan Wilson (1976). “What shall we wear to this party?: The man in the gray flannel suit twenty years before & after”, Arbor House Publishing

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• This is not a game, ... Debt has become a part of who we are. It's become that spoiled child in the grocery store with their lip stuck out: 'I want it. I want it. I deserve it because I breathe air.' And, well, that's an uphill climb in our culture right now, to go against that and say, 'Hey, let's be grownups here. Let's be mature, learn to delay pleasure, save up and pay for things.'

  Dave Ramsey

  Children, Air, Games

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• you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.

  Margaret Halsey

  Children, Boys, White

  Margaret Halsey (1944). “...Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel”

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• Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Children, Religion, Moral

  "Time Enough for Love".

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• Washington, one feels in Washington, is the spoiled child of the republic.

  Montgomery Schuyler

  Children, Republic, Spoiled

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• The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history.

  Herman Wouk

  Children, America, People

  Herman Wouk (1986). “Winds of War”, Pocket

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• Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Dream, Atheist, Children

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.227, Penguin

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• The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while continuing to invent non-psalmic 'worship' based on our own feelings of the moment, risks being like a spoiled child who, taken to the summit of Table Mountain with the city and the ocean spread out before him, refuses to gaze at the view because he is playing with his Game Boy

  N. T. Wright

  Prayer, Children, Ocean

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