Childish Quotes

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.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff.

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.'

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions.

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.

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.

I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, she's childish, she's immature and because I'm doing a three-book arc I really played that up in the first book. I wanted the reader to be annoyed with her at times.

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, "Am I having fun?"

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

"Yes we can" always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.