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Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now.
— William Wordsworth
Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.
— Billy Childish
Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish play.
— Friedrich Schiller
When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
— 1 Corinthians 13 11
It was as though the very process of maturation with him had been reversed, so that with experience he seemed to grow more, not less, childish.
— David Falkner
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
— Mikhail Bakunin
Pete thinks we all have a blacking factory: some awful moment, early on, when we surrender our childish hearts as surely as we lose our baby teeth.
— Armistead Maupin
Those old things were still painful to think about, still bright with the childish primary colors of fear and horror.
— Stephen King
Artists who don't paint aren't artists.
— Billy Childish
I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.
— Billy Childish
It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw.
— Billy Childish
In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.
— Karl Lagerfeld
When a man says it's a silly childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.
— Don Epperson
For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.
— Charlotte Bronte
RICHARD, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER:I am too childish-foolish for this world. — William Shakespeare
When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.
— P. J. O'Rourke
That's all life is - something childish and very natural. Isn't it?
— Katherine Mansfield
I could wish for nothing more than to die for a childish dream in which I truly believed.
— Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Be like children , Not childish BUT childlike.
— Michael Jackson
Age doesn't make us childish, as they say, It finds that we're still children.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It's childish, but it still gives me great pleasure to see high-res pictures everyone told me would be impossible.
— Stefan Hell
I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naivete, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!'
— Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates.
— Malcolm McLaren
What makes you think children like childish things? Don't tell them how to be children. They want to grow up.
— M.B. Goffstein
Learn to get excited like a child. There is nothing that has more magic than childish excitement.
— Jim Rohn
I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.
— Brian Baumgartner
People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion.
— Jay Sankey
People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish ... but that's only if it's done properly.
— Banksy
Things that are truly great need nothing from me, and to somehow think that they do speaks to my utter lack of greatness.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I like feeling at home and knowing people. I like talking about ideas and being friendly.
— Billy Childish
Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.
— Emile M. Cioran
An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.
— Isaac Asimov
She was intelligent enough to realize that her excitement was childish, but not mature enough to care.
— China Mieville
For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.
— Albert Einstein
We're children. We're supposed to be childish.
— George R R Martin
Another lesson to file away about Scotland: insulting other people in a childish manner was the national pastime.
— Molly Ringle
The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.
— Rebecca Pepper Sinkler
Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations. Yet
— L. Frank Baum
I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work.
— Billy Childish
I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm ... like Alice falling down the chute.
— Mariella Frostrup
Mockery is childish. It does not become you.
— Veronica Roth
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
— Clarence Darrow
I only have the quite childish horror of the grave and of nothingness
— Victor Klemperer
She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Let's abolish the term 'childish' because adults normally cause the largest problems.
— Adora Svitak
I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.
— Billy Childish
Optimists are childish; they even believe they can find an ice cream store in the hell!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.
— George W. S. Trow
I have always loved fairy tales, even now at the age when I am supposed to be too grown up and cynical for them.
— Claire Wong
The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I like being on the margins. You work better there.
— Billy Childish
Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear. — William Shakespeare
The accusations make me want to be kid again. Why isn't my mommy calling them big fat liars?
— Kendare Blake
The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.
— George Crabbe
I thought that was a really childish idea. So I did it.
— John Duover
Sometimes, what holds us back is a childish notion that there is danger in our success.
— Charles F. Glassman
(While it's lovely to be childlike in your pursuit of creativity, in other words, it's dangerous to be childish.)
— Elizabeth Gilbert
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
— Amanda Hocking
Whats the point in being grown up when you cant act childish sometimes?
— Natalie Repinski
The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
From childish fear springs the desire to externalise the ego.
— Bertrand Russell
Just because it's childish and unfair doesn't mean it isn't the way I felt. Stupid, but true.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
He's filled with a sense of childish release, the old feeling that because you are sick, all your trials and obligations have been suspended.
— Michael Cunningham
My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that, it's very sad.
— Norman Wisdom
When a complex is acquired, personal development is stopped and the person even being an adult, sometimes behaves in a childish and immature way
— Sunday Adelaja
You know an actor is great, or you childish, when you end up loving or hating them because of the deeds of a character they play or played.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I hang around kids so people will assume when I act like one it's because I'm babysitting.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
— Katharine Hepburn
When someone accuses you of being 'childish', I think you should take it as a compliment.
— Stana Katic
You can begin by dropping that childish nickname and addressing me in the proper fashion.
— Tessa Dare
A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
— Alexander Cockburn
I cherish my childish lovesthe memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged. — George Eliot
A childish mind griped to unexpected changes.
— Toba Beta
I don't spend a lot of time working if I can help it.
— Billy Childish