Quotes
Authors
William Gouge
"Reprehension is a kind of middle thing betwixt admonition and correction: it is sharpe admonition, but a milde correction. It is rather to be used because it may be a meanes to prevent strokes and blowes, especially in ingenuous and good natured children. [Blows are] the last remedy which a parent can use: a remedy which may doe good when nothing else can." --
William Gouge
#Children Quotes
#Blow Quotes
#Discipline Quotes
“It is kind of cliche to say you like a man to smell like a man, but I really do. My husband can go three or four days without taking a shower and the man never smells.”
“We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days... We are merely thinking of those relationships between those two groups which are entirely independent of the individual essences of any of the members of either group. This is a very remarkable feat of abstraction; and it must have taken ages for the human race to rise to it”
“The ages between birth and age 5 are the foundation upon which successful lives are built.”
“This is the sum of duty: do naught to others which if done to thee, would cause thee pain.”
“There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.”
Source : Dean Young (2005). “Elegy On Toy Piano”, University of Pittsburgh Press
“Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.”
“I'm a sinner. I fumble. People must see me as one of them. The things that worry them, must worry me”
“Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or indifferent by an excess of happiness. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Happiness should be a means of accomplishment, like health, not an end in itself.”
