One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

—Unknown

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.

—Unknown

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

—Unknown

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

—Unknown

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

—Unknown

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

—Will Rogers

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

—Will Durant

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

—Robert Ingersoll

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles… respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law… or, in a word justice.

—Oscar Wilde