Permanently Dependent Child

Famous quotes containing the words permanently, dependent and/or child:

    After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on—have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear—what remains? Nature remains.
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are, in some degree, independent of men ... Whilst they are absolutely dependent on their husbands they will be cunning, mean, and selfish, and the men who can be gratified by the fawning fondness of spaniel-like affection, have not much delicacy, for love is not to be bought, in any sense of the words, its silken wings are instantly shrivelled up when any thing beside a return in kind is sought.
    Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)

    A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
    Karl Kraus (1874–1936)