GET A LIFE NOW: Kids Thoughts On Marriage

These children clearly have given more thought to their philosophy of marriage than most of us do.

Even boys have something to say if you listen long enough... keep the chips and dip coming
--seem pretty far apart in attitudes to the opposite sex.

I like the boy who says you can tell if people are married if they yell at the same kids. Pam says its ok to kiss boys when they're rich clearly has a shameless gold digging mother.

At 6 Freddie, who is wise beyond his years, says you've got to be a fool to get married... he has learned from the mistakes of others whereas most of us want to make all the mistakes ourselves and quickly lose traction in our lives.

"You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself."

- Groucho

Flattery (also called adulation or blandishment) is the act of giving excessive compliments, generally for the purpose of ingratiating oneself with the subject.

Tell enough lies on the first date in order to get a second date is funny advice coming from a 10 year old.

Anita, at 9, realizes boys are just looking for a maid.

Tell your wife she looks pretty even if she looks like a truck! says little Ricky, a future con man:

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.
- Samuel Richardson

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
- William Penn

It is difficult to find any praise for flattery which is mostly considered to be mpulative

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

- Abraham Lincoln

Flattery (also called adulation or blandishment) is the act of giving excessive compliments, generally for the purpose of ingratiating oneself with the subject.

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour the dead only, these the living.
- Antisthenes

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
- Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
- George Chapman

A flatterer is said to be a beast that biteth smiling. But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for as a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
- Sir Walter Raleigh

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.
- Sir Walter Raleigh (1)

Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.
- Sir Walter Raleigh (1)

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
- Denis Diderot

We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Flattery is never so agreeable as to our blind side; commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosoms.
- Henry Fielding

Flattery is a sort of bad money, to which our vanity gives currency.
- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
- Moliere (pseudonym of Jean Baptiste Poquelin)

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.
- Wilson Mizner

No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue;
  Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest
    Save he who courts the flattery.
      - Hannah More, Daniel

No flatt'ry, boy! an honest man can't live by't;
  It is a little sneaking art, which knaves
    Use to cajole and soften fools withal.
      If thou hast flatt'ry in thy nature, out with't;
        Or send it to a court, for there 'twill thrive.
      - Thomas Otway

Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of the flatterer within.
- Plutarch

Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, he imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.
      - Moslih Eddin (Muslih-un-Din) Saadi (Sadi)

But when I tell him he hates flatterers,
  He says he does, being then most flattered.
      - William Shakespeare

He does me double wrong, that wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
      - William Shakespeare

Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.
- Socrates

Those are generally good at flattering who are good for nothing else.
      - Bishop Robert South

Among all the diseases of the mind, there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.
      - Sir Richard Steele

First we flatter ourselves; and then the flattery of others is sure of success. It awakens our self-love within--a party who is ever ready to revolt from our better judgment, and join the enemy without.
      - Sir Richard Steele

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.
- Jonathan Swift

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.
- Jonathan Swift

The love of flattery in most men proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.
- Jonathan Swift

'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
  That flattery's the food of fools;
    Yet now and then your men of wit
      Will condescend to take a bit.
      - Jonathan Swift, Cadenus and Vanessa
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Where Young must torture his invention

To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
- Jonathan Swift, Poetry, a Rhapsody
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This barren verbiage current among men,
Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
- Lord Alfred Tennyson

Know thyself, thy evil as thy good, and flattery shall not harm thee; yea, her speech shall be a warning, a humbling, and a guide. For wherein thou lackest most, there chiefly will the sycophant commend thee.
- Martin Farquhar Tupper

Flattery is like base coin; it impoverishes him who receives it.
- Madame Voillez

Sirs, adulation, is a fatal thing--
Rank poison for a subject, or a king.
- Dr. John Wolcot (Wolcott or Woolcott) (used pseudonym Peter Pindar)

With you own heart confer;
And dread even there to find a flatterer.
- Edward Young, Love of Fame (satire VI)

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
- Moliere (pseudonym of Jean Baptiste Poquelin)

Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.
- Adlai E. Stevenson

Men find it more easy to flatter than to praise.
- Jean Paul (pseudonym of Jean Paul Friedrich Richter)