In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.
Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit at Christmas. Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
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.
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.
What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?
When we're in that kind of childish space, we're more genuine and feel more comfortable with our friends.
single people without children have a "childish sensitivity and are unwilling or unable to compromise or fit in
When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things.
With mortal age comes the immense need for childish charms. Like a fine wine, sweetens with maturity.
I always say that failure was my friend. I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.
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.'
I hear a lot of people singing in funny voices and singing like they're stupid. Singing in a deliberately fey and dumb and childish way. And I find it to be a disturbing trend.
Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.
'Yes we can' always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls.
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
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.
The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.
All that helter-skelter about strings and memories was only relevant in the dark. It was light out now and time to put away childish things.
I really wanted to be a newspaper cartoonist, but nobody liked my work. I didn't have the control or flair that was necessary to create something that didn't look childish.
Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.
Childish and slender creature! It seemed as if a linnet had hopped to my foot and proposed to bear me on its tiny wing.
