“Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The way we speak of our parents teaches our children the way they will speak of us to our grandchildren.”
Gene Crawford
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.”
Confucius
“As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.”
Jonathan Swift
“Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.”
Thornton Wilder
“Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
