You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that make it.

—Franklin P. Jones

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.

—Franklin P. Jones

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

—Franklin P. Jones

Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.

—Franklin P. Jones

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

—Franklin P. Jones

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

—George Eliot

The child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot.

—Meg Wolitzer in The Interestings

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

—Randall Jarrell

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

—Bill Watterson