Famous quotes containing the words absolute, risk and/or aversion:
“To be a successful father ... there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)
“Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child’s life were crucial. Education should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take the form of play—that embryonic notion of kindergarten.”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)