Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.  

Real Exam Answers from Real Children

To collect fumes of sulphur, hold a deacon over a flame in a test tube.

When you breath, you inspire. When you do not breath, you expire.

The body consists of three parts: the brainium, the borax, and the abominable cavity. The brainium contains the brain, the borax contains the heart and lungs, and the abominable cavity contains the bowels, of which there are five - a, e, i, o, and u.

Benjamin Franklin invented electricity by rubbing two cats backward.

One of the major functions of skin is to keep people who look at you from throwing up.

Children go where there is excitement, but they stay where there is love.

Sometimes the best way to convince your children they're wrong is to let them have their own way.

"Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God.
"Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it." (Jesus of Nazareth)

"If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weeds." (Luther Burbank)

Money may not be everything, but it does keep your children in touch with you.

If you can give your children only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

"Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that in heaven their angels always see the face of My Father who is in heaven." (Jesus of Nazareth)

"Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children." (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

"Train up a child in the way he should go—and walk there yourself once in awhile." (Josh Billings)

"Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy." (Robert Heinlein)

Some parents make cruel statements to their children, and then try to wiggle off the hook by saying, "I was just kidding."

"Before I got married, I had six theories about how to bring up children—now I have six children, and no theories." (Lord Rochester)

"When I approach children, they inspire in me two sentiments—tenderness for what they are, and a respect for what they may become." (Louis Pasteur)

"Train up children in the way they should go, and when they are older they will not depart from it" (Proverbs 22:6).

"The best way to make children good is to make them happy." (Oscar Wilde)

We don't correct our children to make them feel bad, but to help them discover a better way to do something.

"The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children." (Duke of Windsor)

Our nation will be tomorrow what we teach our children today.

"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde)

Blessed is the mother who doesn't insist on talking about her children when I want to talk about mine.

Letter to The Sun

Dear Editor,

I am eight years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?

Virginia O'Hanlon

Virginia,

Your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds.

All minds, Virginia, whether they be adult's or children's are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to our life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance, to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign there is no Santa Claus.

The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. (Casual Essays of The Sun)

"The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them" (Isaiah 11:6).