#childish

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

#alive #childish #cowardice #discover #easy

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#encourage #men #scold #them #then

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. ↗

— Rita Dove

#away #child #childish #did #i

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.' ↗

— Gene Wilder

#child #childish #comic #comics #derive

Dying people often become childish. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#childish #dying #often #people

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

#clothes #discussion #even #fur #handbags

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

— James Anthony Froude

#childish #children #does #finds #make

When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#childishness #maturity #desire

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

— Martin Bashir

#business #childish #professional #say #transactions

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood? ↗

— Judith Viorst

#cost #does #foolish #how #irrational